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Nandi Mehta Tabbed First-Team CoSIDA Academic All-American
11/22/2016 6:03:00 PM | Women's Soccer
EVANSTON, Ill. – Fifth-year senior and captain Nandi Mehta earned first-team CoSIDA Academic All-America honors, accounted on Tuesday.
Mehta captured CoSIDA Academic All-Distric honors for the second-straight year when teams were announced on Oct. 27. This marks the first All-America honor for Mehta.
Twenty-three of the 33 members of the 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I women's soccer teams have at least a 3.90 G.P.A., with 13 student-athletes having a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. The 11 members of the first team have an average G.P.A. of 3.90.
Mehta, who graduated last year with an economics and international studies double major, is a three-time captain for the Wildcats. After finishing her undergraduate degree, Mehta returned for a fifth-year of eligibility in 2016. This season, she led the 'Cats to their second-straight NCAA Tournament appearance and advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1998.
The All-Big Ten third team honoree captained a 2016 squad that won the program's first-ever Big Ten Championship as well as a 2015 team that saw its first NCAA Tournament appearance in nearly 20 years.
In her junior year, Mehta was chosen as one of five junior Northwestern student-athlete winners of the NU For Life Irving Kabiller Memorial Award for Excellence in Character, Commitment, and Community. As a winner, she received a $5,000 grant for her own professional development and she used it to attend the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in February and, over the summer, to work with a faculty member at the University of Geneva in Switzerland on reforming medical policy.
Mehta captured CoSIDA Academic All-Distric honors for the second-straight year when teams were announced on Oct. 27. This marks the first All-America honor for Mehta.
Twenty-three of the 33 members of the 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I women's soccer teams have at least a 3.90 G.P.A., with 13 student-athletes having a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. The 11 members of the first team have an average G.P.A. of 3.90.
Mehta, who graduated last year with an economics and international studies double major, is a three-time captain for the Wildcats. After finishing her undergraduate degree, Mehta returned for a fifth-year of eligibility in 2016. This season, she led the 'Cats to their second-straight NCAA Tournament appearance and advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1998.
The All-Big Ten third team honoree captained a 2016 squad that won the program's first-ever Big Ten Championship as well as a 2015 team that saw its first NCAA Tournament appearance in nearly 20 years.
In her junior year, Mehta was chosen as one of five junior Northwestern student-athlete winners of the NU For Life Irving Kabiller Memorial Award for Excellence in Character, Commitment, and Community. As a winner, she received a $5,000 grant for her own professional development and she used it to attend the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in February and, over the summer, to work with a faculty member at the University of Geneva in Switzerland on reforming medical policy.
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