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Costenbader Named to Inaugural Division I-AAA ADs Association Scholar-Athlete Team
AU junior adds to academic honors

April 22, 2003

Katryn Costenbader earned a spot on the I-AAA Scholar-Athlete Team.

WASHINGTON — American University junior Katryn Costenbader (Silver Spring, Md./Einstein) has been named to the Inaugural Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association Scholar-Athlete Team for women’s basketball. Costenbader adds this honor to her two Verizon Academic District II Women’s Basketball First Team awards.

Basketball players from all Division I-AAA ADA member institutions are eligible for these awards. Each of the nominees were required to have a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.20 and be a starter or an important reserve with legitimate athletics credentials. In addition, she must have reached sophomore standing both athletically and academically and have participated in 50 percent of the games played by the team.

One of 10 players nationally selected to the squad, Costenbader is a psychology major with a 3.83 GPA. She finished the 2002-03 season third on the team in scoring and rebounding with 9.3 points per game and 4.8 rebounds per contest. Costenbader posted three double-doubles this season and has made some clutch shots for the Eagles in Patriot League play.

A solid three-point shooter, Costenbader is sixth all-time in career three-point percentage at AU. She is one of only three players in AU history with 100 or more career three-pointers, making 101, good for third all-time.

Now in its second year, the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Assocition’s mission is to enhance initatives common to its Division I-AAA membership (the 90 Division I institutions that do not sponsor football), in particular, aspects related to their flagship basketball programs.

American University, which fields a 19-sport NCAA Division I athletics program featuring 10 women’s sports and nine for men, is in its second year of membership in the Patriot League. Since joining the Patriot League, the University has captured league championships in men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball, and regular-season titles in men’s basketball and women’s lacrosse.

Chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893, American University features students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 160 nations worldwide.