Release courtesy of Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications
AUSTIN, TX – Johns Hopkins graduate student Olivia Parisi has been named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC / formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-America Division III Women's Basketball Second Team it was announced today. Parisi earns her second Academic All-America honor as she was a first team selection last season. She was the only player from the Centennial Conference named to the team and she becomes the third Academic All-American in Johns Hopkins women's basketball history.
Parisi is currently pursuing a masters' degree in finance at Johns Hopkins' Carey Business School. She carries a 3.81 cumulative grade point average in graduate school after earning an undergraduate degree in economics with a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
Parisi was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 2022, completed an internship with the Connecticut State Elections Office and has served as a Teaching Fellow in Economics and a Teaching Assistant in Econometrics.
An Honorable Mention WBCA All-American last season, Parisi was recently named Second Team D3hoops.com All-Region and First Team All-Centennial Conference for her efforts during the 2022-23 season.
A graduate transfer this season from William Smith, Parisi made an immediate impact in her only year with the Blue Jays as she led the team in scoring (11.3), and free throw percentage (.832) and finished second in field goal percentage (.483) and rebounding (5.7), tied for third in blocks (13) and ranked fourth in assists (35). She finished second in the Centennial Conference in free throw percentage and ninth in scoring.
Parisi scored in double figures 16 times on the year, including 13 times in 18 games after entering the starting lineup. She averaged 13.1 points per game over the final 18 games of the season and had three games with 20 or more points to her credit on the year. Parisi tied the Johns Hopkins single-game record free throw percentage when she hit all 13 of her attempts in a win at Haverford in early February and her .832 free throw percentage on the year is the highest for a Johns Hopkins player since the 2015-16 season; it is also the highest by a Blue Jay with more than 100 attempts since Chantel Mattiola hit 86.1% of her attempts in 2011-12.
Parisi joins Kathy Darling (2003 / 2nd Team) and Lexie Scholtz (2019 / 1st Team) as Johns Hopkins women's basketball players who have earned Academic All-America honors.