SHREVEPORT, La. -- In an announcement made tonight at the conference tournament, Colorado College's Zoe Tomlinson was named the 2024 SCAC Women's Basketball Elite 19 award winner.
Tomlinson, a junior forward/center from New York, N.Y., who earned All-SCAC First Team and Player-of-the-Year honors this season, currently holds a cumulative GPA of 3.937 as a Mathematical Economics major.
A double-double machine on the basketball court, Tomlinson's sweep of both Player-of-the-Year and Elite 19 honors in the same season represents just the seventh time in league history a student-athlete has pulled off the athletic/academic double-double. Molly McCullough of Trinity (Cross Country, 2018), Tyler Cauley of Texas Lutheran (Baseball, 2021), Luis Bencomo of St. Thomas (Men's Soccer, 2021), and James Settles of Colorado College (Men's Cross Country, 2022 and 2023; Men's Track & Field, 2023) each accomplished the rare and impressive feat.
Established prior to the 2018-19 academic year and meant to recognize the best of the best within each of the league's 19 sponsored sports as it relates to both academic and athletic achievement, the SCAC Elite 19 is awarded to the student-athlete who has completed the equivalent of at least 60 credit hours at his or her current institution and has at least a cumulative 3.25 GPA. The student-athlete must also have earned All-SCAC First, Second or Third Team honors in his/her sport for that particular season.
