Oregon State gymnast Yuki Lamb (Knoxville, Tenn.) was recognized on the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America women’s at-large third team, Thursday.
Lamb, a senior, is studying business administration with options in international business and marketing as well as a minor in French and expects to graduate from OSU in December. She will spend the fall term studying abroad in Austria.
Lamb was an integral part of the vault and balance beam lineups in 2008 and earned All-American status on the vault as a senior. She performed as OSU’s lead-off for the beam lineup for most of the season and also had earned a role in the floor exercise lineup before a leg injury prevented her from performing on the event early in the season. Lamb set or tied career-highs on all three of her events in 2008 including scores of 9.925 on vault, 9.875 on the beam and 9.875 on floor. Along the way she captured four of her five career individual titles.
As a two-time team captain, Lamb helped lead the Beavers qualify to their third straight NCAA Championship appearance. Along the way, the Beavers won the NCAA West Regional Championship for the first time since 1992 and Lamb earned the individual title on the vault. Lamb was also a 2008 All-Pac-10 second team member on the vault.
In March, Lamb was named as a Pac-10 All-Academic first team member and she is also a three-time NACGC/W (National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women) Scholastic All-American. Lamb recently received her third straight award as an Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports Scholar team member and also was announced as a Pac-10 Conference medal winner awarded based on a combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership. She is also one of four Oregon State student-athletes to receive a Pac-10 post-graduate scholarship.
Lamb becomes the seventh OSU gymnast to earn Academic All-American status and the first since Randi Miller was honored in 1997.
Nominees for the at-large team were taken from student-athletes in the sports of bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo with each NCAA institution allowed to submit three total nominees for consideration.
In order to be considered, athletes must have a minimum 3.20 cumulative grade point average, have reached sophomore standing both academically and athletically, have completed at least one full academic year at their current institution, and participated in at least 50 percent of their team’s competitions.
The team is selected by a vote of College Sports Information Directors of America member within District VIII, which includes schools in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and British Columbia.
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