OC guard Clift makes Capital One Academic All-District first-team list

Senior guard Katy Clift, who has a perfect 4.0 grade point average, has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District 7 College Division women’s basketball first-team list.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 2, 2012) – Oklahoma Christian guard Katy Clift has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District 7 College Division women’s basketball first-team list.

The College Sports Information Directors of America, the group that votes on the award, announced the all-district teams Thursday. Clift, a 5-foot-6 senior from Kiowa, Okla., has a perfect 4.0 grade point average in English writing.

Entering Thursday night’s game against Wayland Baptist (Texas), Clift had started all 21 games this season for OC (7-14) and was averaging a team-high 14.5 points and 2.5 rebounds per game. She leads the Lady Eagles in 3-pointers with 63 and is shooting 84.9 percent (79 of 93) from the free-throw line.

With 199 career 3-pointers, Clift ranks third on OC’s career list in that category, behind Katie Fariss (268) and Ali Griffin (207). Clift is 73 points away from becoming the 25th OC player to score at least 1,000 career points.

Clift is the 12th player in OC history to make the Academic All-District list and the sixth to receive first-team honors, joining Kim Golden (1991), Erin Wiens (1998), Lauren Decker (2004, 2005, 2006), Tasha Turney (2006) and Charlotte Heron (2009). Golden went on to be named as a first-team Academic All-American.

The first-team honorees from each of eight districts will advance to the Academic All-American ballot. District 7 is comprised of schools from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.

The College Division Academic All-District and All-America teams are comprised of student-athletes from NAIA, Canadian and two-year institutions.

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