CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large Teams
A trio of Centennial Conference student-athletes have been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large Teams, announced by the organization on Wednesday. Gettysburg women's lacrosse senior Liza Barr was named to the first team, Swarthmore women's lacrosse senior Sadie Camilliere earned third team honors, and Johns Hopkins men's tennis junior Vishnu Joshi landed on the third team.
The CoSIDA Academic All-America Team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in athletic competition and in the classroom. The At-Large Team includes the following sports: bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming & diving, tennis, water polo and wrestling.
Gettysburg's Barr becomes the first Bullet women's lacrosse Academic All-American since Nicole Ditillo '10 earned the second of her two nods in 2010. Barr is the 27th Gettysburg student-athlete overall to gain national academic status from CoSIDA.She was a two-time first-team All-American and was tagged CC Offensive Player of the Year, All-CC First Team, and All-Metro Region First Team in 2019. She was well on her way to similar laurels in the shortened 2020 campaign, producing nine goals and team highs in both assists (14) and points (23) through five games. Barr was named a first-team All-American by Inside Lacrosse this season.
A two-time first-team Academic All-District selection, Barr ended her career as one of the top offensive performers in program history. She tallied 238 points on 122 goals and 116 assists in just 68 games. She finished fifth in career assists and ninth in career points at Gettysburg. In 2019, Barr led all of NCAA Division III and set school and conference records with 75 assists. She tallied 127 points overall in 2019, which marked the second-highest total in school history. In the second round of the national playoffs against Westminster (Pa.) College last spring, she set school and conference records with 13 assists and 15 points.
In the classroom, Barr maintained a 3.90 GPA, was tabbed to the Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies and she was given the Clair B., Mary E., and Constance Noerr (Baker) Memorial Award, which is presented to a female senior on the basis of proficiency in athletics, scholarship, and character. She was also the recipient of the John Edgar Baublitz Pi Lambda Sigma Award in Management. Barr graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Organization and Management Studies. Additionally, Barr has been selected as Gettysburg's nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year, which honors the top female student-athlete in the country.
Swarthmore's Camilliere is the 29th such honoree in school history and is the second recipient of the honor this year, joining Cole Beeker from the baseball team. Camilliere, a psychology and linguistics major, placed on the All-America At-Large Third Team and was one of 13 named to that team.
This year, Camilliere has also been the recipient of the CoSIDA Academic All-District honor, the CC Overall Women's Scholar Athlete of the Year and CC Women's Lacrosse Scholar Athlete of the Year recognitions. She earned All-Centennial Second-Team honors in 2019 and compiled the ninth-most caused turnovers in program history. Swarthmore women's lacrosse finished the year with a 5-0 record.
JHU's Joshi is just the third Academic All-American in JHU men's tennis history and the first since 2013. Joshi is a two-time ITA All-American and posts a career record of 32-18 in singles and 31-20 in doubles. He ranks 24th in program history in singles wins and is 25th in total wins (63). He is also a two-time qualifier for the NCAA Singles Championship. This season, Joshi was the runner-up in both singles and doubles at the ITA Southeast Championship and later earned a bid to the ITA Cup in both. He is ranked ninth nationally and second in the Atlantic South in singles and is 11th in the region in doubles.
Joshi boasts a 3.89 cumulative GPA and is majoring in computer science and computer engineering with a minor in applied mathematics and statistics. He is working as a software engineering intern at Capital One and has previously interned at NTT Data Services and DecisivEdge, LLC.
This past year, Joshi was a course assistant for intermediate programming and intro to algorithms. Since his arrival on campus in August 2017, Joshi has volunteered with ACEing Autism, a program that teaches special needs children and teenagers tennis fundamentals. In addition, he has created an iOS application that would allow users to track NCAA tennis matches using Swift and XCode and export results to Twitter.