Priebe Chosen To CoSIDA Academic All-America Team
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) has named UW-Oshkosh senior golfer Kayla Priebe to its 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NCAA Division III Women's At-Large Team.
Priebe, a First Team selection, is the third UW-Oshkosh student-athlete to earn Google Cloud Academic All-America® honors during the 2018-19 academic year. Previous UW-Oshkosh award winners were Turner Geisthardt in football (First Team) and Abby Menting in softball (Second Team).
Priebe, an accounting major who graduated in May with a 4.00 cumulative grade point average, was among 49 student-athletes recognized for their combined performances in the athletic realm and in the classroom. Student-athletes were selected to the At-Large Team from the sports of beach volleyball, bowling, crew/rowing, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming & diving, tennis and water polo.
This year, CoSIDA members voted 15 student-athletes to its First and Second At-Large Teams and 19 to the Third. Tennis player Lauren O'Malley of John Carroll University (Ohio) was named the Google Cloud Academic All-America® At-Large Team Member of the Year.
Priebe, a graduate of Fox Valley Lutheran High School in Appleton, is a three-time Google Cloud Academic All-District® 6 selection. The four-time WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll member received several academic scholarships and was named to the UW-Oshkosh Dean's List during all eight semesters of her attendance. Priebe and Menting were co-recipients of the 2019 UW-Oshkosh John Taylor Senior Scholar-Athlete Award.
Priebe was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants, UW-Oshkosh's Accounting Club and UW-Oshkosh's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She volunteered with Special Olympics Polar Plunge, Together We Rise, Feeding America and Polk Library. Priebe represented UW-Oshkosh at Viessmann Sustainability Seminar in Allendorf, Germany, in May 2018.
Priebe, a two-time NCAA Division III All-Central Region selection, averaged 78.6 strokes while playing 16 18-hole rounds during the 2018-19 season. She scored 80 strokes or better 14 times, including a season-best 74 on the first day of the UW-Oshkosh Titan Classic held Sept. 1 at the Oshkosh Country Club.
Last fall, Priebe finished sixth with 236 strokes at the 54-hole WIAC Championship held in Reedsburg. She also placed second at the UW-Oshkosh Titan Classic, UW-Whitewater Invitational and UW-Stevens Point Mad Dawg Invitational.
Priebe previously took second place at the WIAC Championship in 2015 and third in both 2016 and 2017. She received all-conference first team recognition in 2015, 2016 and 2018 and second team accolades in 2017. The 2016 WIAC Player of the Year finished 49th at the 2016 NCAA Division III Championship in Houston, Texas.
Since the inception of the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Program in 1952, 56 UW-Oshkosh student-athletes have combined for 79 Academic All-America awards. Priebe is the first women's golfer in WIAC history to secure Academic All-America® recognition from CoSIDA.
For more information about CoSIDA's Google Cloud Academic All-America® Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com or the Academic All-America® home page on CoSIDA.com.
2019 CoSIDA Google Cloud NCAA Division III Academic All-America® At-Large Team