Full CoSIDA Academic All-District Release

HAVERFORD, Pa. - Haverford College Volleyball senior setter Sara Hunsberger has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District® team, becoming the first Haverford player to garner Academic All-District honors since Emily Hinchcliff in 2007. 

Selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), this award recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in athletic competition and in the classroom. The CoSIDA Academic All-America® program separately recognizes volleyball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA. First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in early December. 

The Mathematics major was a stabilizing presence all season for the Fords at setter as she was called upon to help run the offense and was more than up for that task. Hunsberger was named to second-team All-Centennial Conference honors. She notched 9.47 assists per set, good for second in the Centennial behind just CC Player of the Year Natalie Aston of Johns Hopkins. Hunsberger also proved her defensive prowess with 229 digs, good for 13th in the conference. The Washington, D.C. native tallied 10 double-double efforts this season, including a performance that included a season-best 18 digs in the CC semifinal win over Swarthmore. She also tallied 43 blocks this season, and contributed 25 service aces. 

Volleyball recently completed a historic 2021 season, notching a 24-6 overall record, the program's most wins since the 2009 season, and earning a spot in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2014, capping off a memorable postseason run with an NCAA First Round victory over UMass-Boston at the Cambridge Regional on the campus of MIT last Friday.