Salisbury University senior women's lacrosse standout Sue Ackermann was selected as the 2007-08 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America of the Year for the College Division in the women's at-large field, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Ackermann becomes the 15th Sea Gull to earn Academic All-America honors in the College Division since 2001 and the second this season as Kate Weaver earned first team honors in women's soccer.

Ackermann is the first Sea Gull to ever earn an Academic All-America of the Year award for their respective College Division category. She is also the first-ever Gull to earn first team Academic All-America honors in the at-large category.

CoSIDA awards Academic All-America teams for baseball, football, men's basketball, men's soccer, men's track/cross country, volleyball, women's basketball, women's soccer, women's track/cross country and men's and women's at-large. The at-large category covers any other NCAA sanction sport not listed above.

Ackermann is now one of the 12 finalists for the CoSIDA College Division Academic All-America of the Year for the 2007-08 season. That award will be announced later this summer.

Ackermann, an exercise science major with a near perfect cumulative grade point average, has earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District honors, IWLCA Academic Honor Roll recognition and was the female recipient of the 2007-08 Capital Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete Award and the SU Scholar-Athlete Award. 

The two-time Capital Athletic Conference Player of the Year, capped off one of the best careers ever for a Sea Gull in women's lacrosse history. The Sykesville, Md., native finished the '08 season two points shy of tying the all-time NCAA record for points in a single-season (154, set in 1996).

The two-time IWLCA All-Chesapeake region first team selection finished the season with 152 points on 82 goals and 70 assists. The two-time All-CAC first team attacker graduates as the all-time SU leader in points (321) and assists (149).

She is second all-time in goals (172). The two-time team captain was also a member of the Salisbury Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and recently received a 2008 MACDA post-graduate scholarship.