First Team Academic All-District Honors For Koehn
Feb 18, 2005 | Women's Basketball
MANHATTAN, Kan. Kansas State’s Laurie Koehn was recently named to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII Women’s Basketball First Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). A senior guard from Hesston, Kan., Koehn holds an impressive 3.97 cumulative grade-point average in elementary education. She has been selected three times in her career as an academic all-district first teamer (2003, 2004 and 2005). Last season as a junior, Koehn became the first women’s basketball player in school history to be named a first team CoSIDA Academic All-American. She is a two-time first team Academic All-Big 12 honoree and nine-time Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll student. As a first team all-district pick, Koehn will move on to the national ballot. She currently ranks fourth all-time among NCAA career three-point shooters (359) and holds the school and Big 12 Conference record for most three-pointers made in a career. Koehn also ranks sixth all-time in career scoring (1,607) and first all-time in career three-point attempts (860) at K-State. She needs 33 more threes to break the NCAA all-time record held by BYU's Erin Thorn (391). Senior teammates Megan Mahoney (Sturgis, S.D.) and Kendra Wecker (Marysville, Kan.) were selected to the academic all-district second team. Mahoney is a family studies and human services major with a 3.75 GPA, while Wecker is an electronic journalism major with a 3.45 GPA. Both have been honored as first team Academic All-Big 12 twice and Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll students. This is the third academic all-district second team honor for Wecker, while the first for Mahoney. One of the top five players in the country, Wecker is currently averaging a conference-leading 21.0 points and 9.7 rebounds per game. She ranks second all-time in career scoring (2,241) and second all-time in career rebounding (988) at K-State. Mahoney is two assists away from becoming the school’s all-time assists leader (561). She ranks 13th all-time in career scoring (1,235) and sixth all-time in career rebounding (766). Overall, Kansas State led the way with three honorees, while SW Missouri State and North Dakota State each had two. 2005 ESPN THE MAGAZINE ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT VII WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAMFIRST TEAM
Player School Year GPA Hometown Major(s)
Lacey Johnson North Dakota State Sr. 4.00 Wessington Springs, Business S.D. Administration
Laurie Koehn Kansas State Sr. 3.97 Hesston, Kan. Elementary Education
Nicole Lehman SW Missouri State Sr. 4.00 Lamar, Mo. Dietetics
Anne O’Neil Iowa State Sr. 3.86 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Communications
Lindsay Thomas Colorado State Jr. 4.00 Sioux Falls, S.D. English & Spanish SECOND TEAM
Sarah Klaasen SW Missouri State Jr. 3.96 Whitewater, Kan. Religious Studies
Katie Lorenz North Dakota State Jr. 3.84 Langdon, N.D. Business Administration
Megan Mahoney Kansas State Sr. 3.75 Sturgis, S.D. Family Studies & Human Services
Laura Spanheimer Creighton Sr. 3.69 Omaha, Neb. Exercise Science
Kendra Wecker Kansas State Sr. 3.45 Marysville, Kan. Electronic Journalism
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