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Three From Carnegie Mellon Land on CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-America At-Large Team

Three From Carnegie Mellon Land on CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-America At-Large Team
Posted: Jun 03, 2014

From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics

Three Carnegie Mellon University athletes have been honored by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on the Capital One Academic All-America At-Large Team for both the men and the women with two being honored for the second straight year.  Senior tennis athlete Katie Cecil (Huntington Beach, Calif./Ocean View) is joined by senior golfer Ian Bangor (Moon Township, Pa./Sewickley Academy) on the first team while sophomore Abhishek Alla (Hyderabad, India/IMG Pendleton School) found a spot on the second team.

Cecil, one of two repeat selections on this year’s All-America First Team, finished her senior year for the Tartans with a singles record of 13-2 while carrying a 4.0 GPA with a major in biological sciences with a neuroscience tract.  The senior earned her second straight NCAA Elite 89 Award for women's tennis which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA's 89 championships. She ended her three-year career with the Tartans winning 48 singles matches and 44 doubles matches after transferring from Tulane University.  Additionally this season, Cecil earned All-University Athletic Association (UAA) First Team at No. 3 singles for her unbeaten performance during the Tartans run to second place at the UAA Championship.

Bangor, a 2013 second team honoree and business administration major with a 3.85 GPA, finished with a 75.2 stroke average this past season, with an event win, three top-three and seven top-10 finishes.  It marked the fourth straight season he led the team in scoring average. Bangor was a 2013 PING All-American and NCAA Championships competitor, he earned All-University Athletic Association honors twice, finished with a 75.2 career stroke average and is the school’s all-time wins leader with 10 in his career. The senior is a four-time PING Mid-Atlantic Region Team member and two-time Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar.

Cecil and Bangor were recently inducted into Carnegie Mellon University’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Alla is a civil and environmental engineering major with a minor in business administration and currently carries a 3.85 GPA. The sophomore won the USTA/ITA National Small College Singles Championship in October, earning All-America honors. He helped lead the Tartans to the program's first-ever appearance in the University Athletic Association Championship title match and sixth visit to the NCAA tournament. He ended the season with a singles record of 25-9 while advancing to the round of 16 at the 2014 NCAA Division III Men's Tennis Singles and Doubles Championships, earning All-America honors for the spring. For his career, Alla has amassed a singles record of 42-15, earned UAA Athlete of the Week four times with three coming in 2013-14 and was named the 2013 ITA Atlantic South Rookie of the Year and an ITA Scholar Athlete.