Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell's Alyssa DeLorenz Earns First Team Academic All-America Honors
6/9/2011 8:00:00 AM | Women's Lacrosse
June 9, 2011
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Bucknell senior women's lacrosse goalie Alyssa DeLorenz (Garland, Texas/Plano East), one of the top scholar-athletes in the Class of 2011, was named to the Capital One Academic All-America Women's At-Large First Team on Thursday. A four-year starter who graduated last month with a 3.98 cumulative grade-point average, DeLorenz is Bucknell's 120th all-time Academic All-American.
DeLorenz earned the Patriot League Women's Lacrosse Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor for the second time in her career this spring, and she was also named to the inaugural Patriot League All-Academic Team for her sport.
An accounting major who received yet another perfect 4.0 GPA this spring, DeLorenz shared the highest GPA of any Bison senior student-athlete. At the annual Senior Athletic Awards Banquet she was presented the Alvin F. Jackson Jr. Memorial Scholar-Athlete Award as the top scholar-athlete in her class. She is a member of the Delta Mu Delta international business honor society and is a two-time recipient of the President's Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement. She also won the Charles F. White Prize for Scholar-Athletes in 2009.
DeLorenz has served as a Teaching Assistant in three different accounting courses at Bucknell, and she has interned at both Johnson & Johnson and Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., in Dallas. Last year she won the Johnson & Johnson case competition at Bucknell.
In the local community she has volunteered at a soup kitchen and a nursing home and participated in some youth lacrosse clinics. She served as co-director of spiritual life for Catholic Campus Ministry at Bucknell in 2009-10.
On the field, DeLorenz led the nation in saves per game this season at 12.8, and her 205 total saves ranked No. 2 nationally. That is also the fifth-highest save total in Bucknell history and is the most in 16 years. Her 689 career saves rank third in program history. In her four-year career, DeLorenz started every one of Bucknell's games and played more than 99 percent of the team's minutes in goal.
She was a Second Team All-Patriot League selection in 2011 and a First Team All-PL pick in 2009.
DeLorenz is the third Bucknell women's lacrosse player to earn national Academic All-America honors and the first to garner First Team accolades. Amy Green was a Second Team pick in 1997 and Susan Lang was a Third Team selection in 1989.
The Women's At-Large Academic All-America program includes the sports of bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis and water polo. Other women's sports such as soccer, basketball, volleyball, softball and track and field have separate Academic All-America voting.
Bucknell has now had two Academic All-Americans in 2010-11. Standout football scholar-athlete Travis Nissley was the other. DeLorenz and Nissley are two of 21 Bison student-athletes who earned Academic All-District honors this year. That is the second-highest total in program history, trailing only the 23 honorees in 2008-09.
Entering the 2010-11 academic year, Bucknell ranked fifth among all Division I programs in total number of Academic All-Americans.
