GREENWOOD, Ind. (May 16, 2019) – Oklahoma Christian golfer
Abigail Rigsby was named Thursday to the Google Cloud Academic All-District 6 At-Large honor team, as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Rigsby, a junior from Courtenay, British Columbia, is only the second OC golfer ever to receive Academic All-District honors from CoSIDA, joining
Audrey Meisch, who made the At-Large list in 2015. The CoSIDA honor recognizes student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom and is considered one of the most prestigious in collegiate athletics.
To qualify for the honor, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.3 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale, have reached sophomore status athletically, have legitimate athletic credentials and have been at the nominating institution at least one calendar year.
The Academic All-District awards are divided into eight geographic districts and four divisions. OC student-athletes compete for awards against their counterparts from other Division II schools. District 6 includes universities that are members of the Heartland, Rocky Mountain Athletic and Lone Star Conferences – a total of 35 schools. Sports information directors from those universities vote for the Academic All-District team.
Sports that fall under the "At-Large" umbrella for CoSIDA award purposes are beach volleyball, bowling, lacrosse, rifle, crew, skiing, fencing, swimming, field hockey, tennis, golf, gymnastics, water polo and ice hockey.
Rigsby, a Mathematics major at OC, carries a 3.80 GPA. She is a three-time All-Heartland Conference selection and this season helped the Eagles to three tournament wins, a runner-up finish in the Heartland Conference Championship tournament, a fourth-place finish in the West Super Regional and the program's first berth in the NCAA Division II Championship. She also qualified as an individual for the national tournament during her freshman season in 2017.
She is a three-time individual winner, with two of those wins coming this season – the Oklahoma Intercollegiate at Lawton Country Club in Lawton, Okla., and the Mustang Intercollegiate at Palm Valley Golf Club in Goodyear, Ariz., earning Heartland player-of-the-week honors both times.
Rigsby posted a stroke average of 75.48 over 27 rounds during the 2018-19 season, the second-lowest by a junior in the program's history.
She soon will be a two-time winner of the Division II Athletic Directors Association Academic Achievement Award and three-time Women's Golf Coaches Association All-America Scholar. She's made the Heartland Conference Honor Roll's President's List in each of her six semesters at OC.
Rigsby now will be on the ballot for the CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large team, which will be selected later this month by a national committee of sports information directors. No OC golfer ever has made the Academic All-America team.
