AUSTIN, Texas - Saginaw Valley State University junior women's basketball student-athlete Emily Wendling has been selected to the 2015-16 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division II Women's Basketball Team.
Wendling, an Occupational Therapy major from Flushing, Michigan, carries a 3.88 cumulative GPA in the classroom. She is equally impressive on the basketball court, where she currently averages 18.6 points per game and 9.4 rebounds per contest. Emily leads the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) with the scoring average and ranks fourth in rebounding. Wendling has an 85.3 free throw percentage this year as well and has averaged a block every game. She became a member of the SVSU women's basketball 1,000-point club earlier this season as well. Her free throw percentage has helped the Cards rank third currently nationally with a 78.6 percent average from the charity stripe.
Emily has led the Lady Cardinals to a share of the programs' first-ever GLIAC North Division Championship and best season since the 1997-98 campaign. The team has reached the 20-victory mark for the first time since that same season and will enter the 2016 GLIAC Tournament Tuesday (Mar. 1) as the no. 2 overall seed.
Wendling was named the GLIAC North Division Player of the Week five times in 2015-16 and was selected as the USBWA National Player of the Week once, as well as being named the February Women's Division II Bulletin Player of the Month.
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