Story Named to Academic All-America First Team

Recent College of Wooster graduate and lacrosse standout Ryan Story was one of 17 student-athletes within the college division (NCAA Div. II and III, and NAIA) selected on to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America First Team for men's at-large sports, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Tuesday.

Story is Wooster's third first-team Academic All-American® of the 2009-10 year, joining soccer players Jay Keener and Chantal Koechli. A third-team Academic All-American® last spring, Story becomes just the ninth Fighting Scot to receive the prestigious award more than once, and it marks the 18th first-team Academic All-American® recognition overall for the school.

One of the cornerstones of Wooster's backfield the last three seasons as a defender, Story garnered all-North Coast Athletic Conference status three times, including honorable mention this year when he helped the Scots rank third in the league and among the top-half in Div. III in scoring defense with 8.56 goals allowed per game. Individually, the team co-captain had 20 groundballs and nine caused turnovers.

Academically, Story graduated summa cum laude with a near-perfect 4.00 GPA while majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology. He won the College's top recognition, the Dan Lockhart Outstanding Senior Award, and spoke on behalf of the Class of 2010 at commencement. In addition, Story was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa national honor society as a junior and picked up the school's Joseph Weber pre-medical award and John Chittum prize in organic chemistry, while serving as a resident assistant.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., (Mt. Lebanon H.S.), Story was an intern in undergraduate research at the University of Pittsburgh the last two summers where he worked on the production of a vaccine and helped develop a gene therapy treatment, and he'll attend Ohio State University's College of Medicine this fall.

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.