Story Selected Third-Team Academic All-American

Ryan Story (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Mt. Lebanon), a rising senior at The College of Wooster, was voted on to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Third Team for men's at-large sports, announced the College Sports Information Directors of America Tuesday. Story is Wooster's third Academic All-American® of the 2008-09 academic year, joining soccer players Jay Keener and Chantal Koechli.

Of the 45 men's at-large honorees (15 on first-, second-, and third-teams), Story was one of just four lacrosse players recognized. He has been the top defender for the Fighting Scots the last two seasons, capping 2009 with first-team all-North Coast Athletic Conference accolades. This spring, he typically guarded the opposition's top scoring threat while helping Wooster average 9.08 goals allowed, which ranked among the top half in NCAA Div. III. Eight of the Scots' 13 opponents scored less than 10 goals, and individually, Story was credited with 29 groundballs and penalized just four times.

Academically, the two-time all-NCAC standout (second-team as a sophomore) maintains a near-perfect 4.00 GPA, while majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology. Story was one of just 10 juniors on campus to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society in May, and was the winner of the school's John W. Chittum Prize in chemistry. He is a resident assistant and has performed research projects each of the previous two summers.

The honorees were selected by CoSIDA among top student-athletes in the sports of crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis, and water polo, with minimum 3.30 GPA's from the college division (NCAA Div. II and III, and NAIA).