UPLAND  – Taylor University’s Kelci Freds was named to the Capital One Academic All-District II First-Team, as announced by the College of Sports Information Directors of America.

The award is designed to recognize student-athletes for outstanding achievements in the classroom, as well as on the field or court of play. In order to be eligible for the honor, an athlete must have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.30 or higher on a 4.0 scale, have reached sophomore status academically and have participated in over half of the team’s competitions during the current season.

Freds has maintained a 3.91 GPA while majoring in marketing and was named as an NAIA Scholar-Athlete, as well as an Academic All-Crossroads League performer during the 2012-2013 season.

Freds, a Warsaw native and WCHS graduate, has played in all 23 games during her senior season for Taylor, while starting 16. Freds currently ranks No. 12 at the NAIA Division II level and No. 1 in the Crossroads League with 61 made three-point field goals during those 23 games and is second on TU with 10.9 points per game, while also leading the Trojans with 29 steals.

Freds was among a group of 21 student-athletes to be honored as a First-Team Academic All-District selection from the College Division, which includes all NAIA, Canadian and two-year institutions, and was the lone women’s basketball player from the Crossroads League to receive the award.

Freds is the eighth Taylor student-athlete to receive Academic All-District recognition during the 2013-2014 campaign and will now be placed on the national ballot for the Capital One Academic All-America Team, which will be announced on February 17.