Story, Darragh Named to Academic All-District Teams

Ryan Story (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Mt. Lebanon) and Hillary Darragh (Evanston, Ill. / Evanston Twp.), members of The College of Wooster men's and women's lacrosse teams, respectively, were named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team for at-large sports, announced the College Sports Information Directors of America recently. Story earned first-team honors, and thus, moves on for Academic All-American® consideration, while Darragh was a second-team selection.

Story, a junior and one of just 10 student-athletes recognized on the men's first team, has served as Wooster's top defender the last two seasons, taking a spot on the All-North Coast Athletic Conference First Team this past spring after picking up second-team recognition as a sophomore. This year, the Fighting Scots ranked among the top half of the NCAA Div. III with an average of 9.08 goals allowed, while holding the opposition to single-digit goals eight of 13 games. Statistically, Story, who typically guarded the opponent's top scoring threat, collected 29 groundballs and was whistled for only four penalties all season.

In the classroom, Story is a biochemistry and molecular biology major with a near-perfect 4.00 GPA. Recently, he was one of 10 juniors on campus to be inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society and he also won the John W. Chittum Prize in chemistry. Story is a resident assistant and performed a summer research project, developing a virus for a Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment in 2008.

Darragh, a senior and tri-captain of the Fighting Scots' NCAC-champion women's lacrosse team, was one of 20 student-athletes recognized on the academic all-district team. As a midfielder, she wound up as Wooster's second-leading scorer with 53 points on 41 goals and 12 assists this spring, and in the process, became just the 12th player in school history to surpass the 150-point mark for her career (161). Darragh received first-team all-NCAC and all-West Region accolades for her efforts.

A four-time all-conference standout, the business economics major with a minor in mathematics is equally impressive off the playing field. During the spring semester, Darragh presented a research project at the Eastern Economics Association in New York City, and previously, spent one semester abroad and one summer at the London School of Economics. She has also completed internships at real estate and health consulting firms in the Chicago area.

The honorees were selected by CoSIDA among top student-athletes in at large-sports, consisting 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) in Wooster's five-state district (Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee).