Nov. 5, 2009

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (Thursday, November 5, 2009) - For the second-straight year senior Molly Davis was named to the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII First Team for her achievements on the court and in the classroom. Last year she was bestowed with the same prestigious honor becoming the first Redhawks volleyball player to achieve this honor since Pam Kirsch was named All-District in 1992.

Players named to the COSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District First Teams will have their names forwarded on to the ballot for COSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America consideration.

Last year Davis was one of 18 players named COSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American as she was placed on the Third Team, becoming the first Redhawks volleyball player since 2000 to achieve Academic All-American status.

Davis, the team's starting libero since her freshman season, currently holds a perfect 4.0 grade point average in Sports Management and currently leads and the Ohio Valley Conference in digs with an average of 5.55 digs per set. That average ranks her sixth nationally and has helped the team rank second in the nation in digs per set at 19.34.

Davis is the school record holder in career digs with 2,162 becoming the only player in Southeast Missouri State volleyball history to have over 2,000 career digs. Her 538 digs this season ranks 11th on the school's single season charts.

The Muncie, Indiana native also owns the Redhawks D-I single season record for digs with 637 set last season. That mark stands as third-best on the all-time single season charts. Her 540 digs that she recorded during her freshman campaign is tied for ninth on the school's single season charts.

Earlier this season against Ole Miss, Davis set the school single season mark for digs in a match as she finished with 39 in just four sets.

Davis has recorded double digits in digs in 112 of her 114 career matches she has played in as a Redhawk. She has played in every set (443 sets) possible in her career except for two.

This season she was named OVC Defensive Player of the Week three weeks in a row and for her career she has garnered four OVC weekly awards.

Academically she was named to the OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll for the second-straight time last season and was a recipient of the OVC's highest academic award, the OVC Medal of Honor, for the second-straight season. She is also a three-time Southeast Scholar-Athlete honoree.

Davis is just one of only two volleyball players in the OVC to be named to an All-District First Team joining Tennessee Tech's Teresa Craig who was named to the District IV First Team with a 4.0 cume GPA. Craig and Davis were prep teammates at Burris High School in Muncie.

To be eligible for the COSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 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.