COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS RELEASE | 2023-24 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT

BOSTON – A pair of Suffolk women's basketball players grabbed College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honors in graduate student Lauren Romito and senior Amanda DeAngelis, the national organization unveiled Tuesday afternoon.  

Awarded by College Sports Communicators (CSC), formerly known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) to the most accomplished student-athletes for combined academic and athletic achievements each year since 1952, this is the longest-running and most prestigious academic and athletic award for student-athletes to receive.  

The 2024 Academic All-District Women's Basketball Teams, selected by CSC, recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. All nominees must have a GPA of at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), be a starter or important reserve, and have competed in at least 50 percent of a team's competition. Each program is eligible to nominate up to four student-athletes. 

Suffolk's two recipients were among 709 NCAA Division III women's basketball student-athletes recognized including 16 of the Rams' Commonwealth Coast Conference counterparts from Curry (2), Endicott (1), Gordon (2), Nichols (4), Roger Williams (3), the University of New England (3) and Wentworth (1). 

In the Rams' women's basketball record books, there have been four student-athletes to earn the recognition: Jenni-Rose DiCecco in 2021 and Katie Kirsch, DeAngelis and Maddie Stewart a year ago. With the addition of the two recognitions this season, women's basketball now has six academic all-district awards belonging to five student-athletes. DeAngelis is the first member of Suffolk women's basketball to collect multiple CSC Academic All-District distinctions.  

A public relations major, DeAngelis holds a 3.736 GPA. The forward that calls Londonderry, New Hampshire home averaged a double-double of 17.8 points and 11.8 rebounds per game as a senior to become the program's first player of the year and the first-ever member of Suffolk women's basketball to be named D3Hoops.com First-Team All-District. 

Romito, meanwhile, owns a 4.00 graduate GPA, while working towards her Masters Degree in Public Relations. On the court she was one of the region's top defensive threats with 4.08 blocks per game and 9.3 rebounds per outing en route to CCC Defensive Player of the Year honors.  

Both DeAngelis and Romito reached the coveted 1,000-point milestone in blue-and-gold this season and represented the Rams at the New England Women's Basketball Association Senior All-Star Game. 

The Rams duo now advances to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced Tuesday, April 16.