STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford senior forward Erica McCall was selected to the 2016-17 CoSIDA Academic All-District Women's Basketball Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) it was announced Thursday. McCall now advances to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
The academic all-district women's basketball teams recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. The teams are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada with District 8 encompassing Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawai'i, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Canada.
It's the second consecutive season McCall was voted CoSIDA Academic All-District. Yesterday, McCall was also named to late season watch lists for both the Naismith Trophy and Wooden Trophy.
McCall, a psychology major with a 3.58 cumulative GPA, paces Stanford in scoring (15.9), rebounding (8.3) and blocks (1.5) and is among the top seven in the Pac-12 in each category. Since the start of her junior year, McCall is averaging 15.3 points on 49.8 percent shooting and 9.0 rebounds, one of just three players in the country with those numbers since the beginning of the 2015-16 season.
Also on the watch lists for the Wade Trophy, Wooden Award and Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, McCall became Stanford's 37th 1,000-point scorer at George Washington on Dec. 21 and is currently 29th in program history with 1,211. Her 173 career blocks are fourth at Stanford and she is also ninth in school history with 833 career rebounds.
McCall's 29 career double-doubles are tied for 16th among active NCAA players and she's had 27 in her last 58 games, 10th in the country over that span. In 12 Pac-12 games McCall is averaging 15.2 points 8.4 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game, one of 12 players in the nation averaging those numbers in conference.
No. 8 Stanford (20-4, 10-2) hosts Colorado (13-10, 3-9) on Friday at 8 p.m. in a game televised on Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Mountain.
