Nov. 22– Concordia University's Lindsay Hartleben has earned ESPN The Magazine second team Academic All-American honors.  She is the first Concordia soccer player to earn the award.

Hartleben, a senior from Wausau, Wis., has a 3.94 grade point average while majoring in communications at Concordia.  She finished the season with seven goals, four assists and a team-high 18 points.

The Academic All-America® Teams program honors 816 male and female student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom.  The soccer team consists of 33 members, 11 first team, 11 second team and 11 third team members from the College Division (NCAA Divsion II, III and NAIA)
  
Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, the College Sports Information Directors of America; a 2,000-member organization consisted of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.  Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.

Concordia University finished the 2005 season with a 5-13-2 overall record and a 4-8-4 record in NSIC play.