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Niki Hayman
Niki Hayman
Posted: Apr 28, 2009

Hayman named to ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America team

ORANGE, Calif. - Women's basketball player Niki Hayman has been named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America team for the first time in her career. Chapman University senior was selected to the third team despite missing the second half of the season due to a broken foot. Hayman becomes the 12th student-athlete in Chapman's Division III history to earn Academic All-America honors.

Hayman's 3.99 grade-point average in legal studies helped her to earn All-District VIII honors last month for the second time in her career. She averaged 18.6 points per game as a guard for the Panthers and scored 20 or more points four times before being sidelined the rest of the season with the foot injury. Hayman ranks sixth all-time in school history with 1,150 career points.

She becomes the second women's basketball player in Chapman history to earn the award and is one of just 15 players from Divisions II, III and NAIA named to three Academic All-America teams this season.

The ESPN the Magazine 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. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, a 2,000 member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

To be eligible, student-athletes must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 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. Chapman is a member of the District VIII College Division, which includes Division II, III and NAIA schools from throughout the Western United States.