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For Immediate Release
May 25, 2006
ZAC KERR MAKES ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT VII
FIRST TEAM
Nebraska Wesleyan’s Zac Kerr (Jr., Grand Island,
Neb., Grand Island High School) has been named to the Academic All-District
VII First Team for men’s at-large sports in the college division.
Kerr has a 3.97 cumulative grade point average in
accounting and led the Prairie Wolves to the NAIA Tennis Championships
earlier this month. He made the All-Great Plains Athletic Conference
(GPAC) Team in both singles and doubles this season, and helped
NWU win both the GPAC postseason tournament and the NAIA Region
III tournament.
The Nebraska Wesleyan men’s tennis team finished
the 2006 season 16-13 overall and had their nine-match win streak
snapped by NAIA No. 9-ranked Northwood University (Fla.) by a score
of 6-3 in the first round of the national tournament. Individually,
Kerr finished 11-15 in singles and 17-12 in doubles with teammate
Nick Eker.
As a First Team All-District selection, Kerr will
now be considered for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team
honors. Just a junior, Kerr is already tied for fifth on the NWU
all-time charts for career doubles wins with 43 and tied for seventh
in team history with 43 career singles wins.
Award notes: District VII includes the states of
Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota,
South Dakota and Wyoming; at-large sports include tennis, golf,
swimming and wrestling among others; and the college division includes
NCAA Div. II, III and NAIA schools. Nominations, votes and selections
are made by the College Sports Information Directors of America
(CoSIDA).
To view the 2006 Men’s At-Large All-District
teams, click
here.
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