STANFORD, Calif. - Middle blocker Tami Alade has been selected to the Google Cloud Academic All-America Second Team, as voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Alade, a native of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, is a human biology major, boasting a 3.56 GPA. She was named AVCA All-Pacific North Region after helping lead the Cardinal to a 20-0 mark to claim a second-straight Pac-12 title and the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. She leads the nation with a 1.80 blocks average and ranks ninth in the country with a .404 hitting percentage, which also tops the Pac-12. The senior has helped lead Stanford to its third straight and 22nd overall appearance in the national semifinal this week.
Off the court, Alade was the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for volleyball and has twice earned Pac-12 All-Academic honors. After volleyball, she intends to pursue a career in medicine working with children. She has worked with the Stanford Immersion in Medicine Series shadowing Dr. Ronald Cohen in the Neonatal ICU where she gained valuable clinical experience interacting with patients and their parents; engaging in diagnoses and adapting to a medical environment. Alade has also worked with Stanford's Language and Cognition Lab, analyzing and presenting on the ways in which joint attention supports learning across different contexts and language modalities. She was awarded a grant to conduct a research study in the lab under a graduate student. In Stanford's Language Learning Lab, Alade worked under Professor Anne Fernald as a research assistant doing experimental study on early language development. She acted directly in participant recruitment, running experiments with infants and children, and conducted data coding and analysis.
"I would have to say this is my 'miracle' story, because this is as unorthodox as it gets. It relied on so many pieces falling in just the right places."
— Stanford Women's Volleyball (@StanfordWVB) December 6, 2018
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The award recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically, maintain a 3.30 cumulative GPA or higher, and have appeared in at least 50 percent of the team's competition.
Alade and the Cardinal will meet No. 4 seed BYU in the national semifinal in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Thursday. First serve is slated for 4 p.m. PT on ESPN.