Winder Earns Academic All-American Honors
6/10/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Volleyball
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As a senior setter in 2008, Winder was named an AVCA All-American for the fourth time and made the first team for the second straight year. He was named MPSF Tournament MVP as Pepperdine made a somewhat unexpected run to the title, and then earned a spot on the NCAA Championships all-tournament team after helping the Waves to a second-place national finish.
He wound up as Pepperdine’s all-time leader in assists (5,118) and fourth in digs (656).
Winder’s honor comes in the at-large sport category, which includes the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.
This is the ninth time that a Pepperdine student-athlete has earned CoSIDA Academic All-American honors. The others were Pete Nicholson (1972, baseball, third team), Rick Hirtensteiner (1989, baseball, first team), Randy Bergstedt (1989, men’s volleyball, second team), Anna Brunstrom (1991, women’s tennis, second team), Lars Herne (1993, men’s golf, first team), Alan Herrmann (1998, men’s water polo, first team) and Clint Olson (2001, men’s volleyball, third team; and 2002, second team).
To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.
