Lake Forest College Sports Information
February 28, 2005
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Lindsey Wild Earns Inaugural NCHA Scholar-Athlete Award
Senior has excelled on the ice and in the classroom
  

Wild is the first recipient of the NCHA Scholar Athlete Award.
LAKE FOREST, IL - The Northern Collegiate Hockey Association announced Monday (February 28) that Lake Forest College senior Lindsey Wild (Inver Grove Heights, MN/Rosemount) is the first-ever recipient of the NCHA Women’s Scholar-Athlete Award. The award will continue to be given annually to the league’s most outstanding senior during the year who exhibits the greatest combination of performance and achievement in academics, athletics, and leadership. A player must maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.50 to be eligible for the award.

Wild currently has a 3.78 grade point average and is majoring in both business and communications. She has been named to the NCHA All-Academic Team in 2004 and 2005 and earned American Women’s Hockey Coaches Association Scholar Athlete All-America honors in 2003. She received Lake Forest’s Sophomore and Junior Scholar-Athlete Awards in 2003 and 2004. In addition, Wild is a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon, an international honors society for economics, and appeared on the Dean’s List each of the last two years.

The two-year team captain earned Honorable Mention All-NCHA honors following her freshman and sophomore seasons and was named NCHA Player of the Week in February of 2002. She currently ranks second in team history with 48 points and tied-for-second with 16 goals in her four seasons and she is the program’s all-time leader with 32 assists.