Melanie Basking garnered ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-District first-team honors (Gil Talbot).
Vote Katherine Sheeleigh for Lowe's Senior CLASS
Award
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Junior midfielder
Melanie Baskind and senior forward Katherine Sheeleigh have been
honored on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District team, it was
announced Tuesday. Baskind was tabbed to the first team and
is now eligible for Academic All-America honors. Sheeleigh
earned a nod to the second team.
Baskind, who hails from Framingham, Mass., is a two-time All-Ivy
League honoree and was the conference's Rookie of the Year in
2008. This fall, Baskind was named Ivy Player of the Week
twice and ranks second on the team with seven goals and 17
points. She also stands tied for second in the conference in
goals and third with 1.13 points per contest. A neurobiology
concentrator, Baskind, who was also an ESPN The Magazine Academic
third-team choice in 2009, established a career-high with six
points (two goals, two assists) in Harvard's 4-0 win at
Princeton Oct. 23. Baskind has moved to 11th in program history
with 50 points and 12th with 17 goals.
Sheeleigh, who is a co-captain for Harvard this season, earns
her second selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic squad.
A finalist for the prestigious Lowe's Senior CLASS Award,
Sheeleigh, a native of New Vernon, N.J., has been named All-Ivy
League in each of her three seasons and was the Ancient Eight
Rookie of the Year in 2007. As a senior, she paces the
Crimson with eight goals and six assists for 22 points and leads
the Ivy League with 0.62 goals and 1.69 points per contest.
Sheeleigh, an economics concentrator, also ranks 14th in the nation
in scoring and enters the final weekend of the regular season fifth
in school history with 30 career goals and sixth with 76 points.
