AUSTIN, Texas – Sophomore guard/forward Cam Lexow (Abington, Pa.) of Gallaudet University was selected to the 2024-25 Academic All-America® Division III Women's Basketball Second Team, as selected by the College Sports Communicators (CSC).
Lexow is one of 15 honorees named to three different teams from around the country in Division III women's basketball where over 440 schools field teams. She was the only representative from the United East Conference. Lexow makes her first appearance on the CSC Academic All-America® Division III Women's Basketball teams.
The 15 members of the 2024-25 Academic All-America® Division III Women's Basketball teams have at least a 3.53 grade point average (GPA), with three student-athletes (including Lexow) maintaining a perfect 4.00 GPA. The five members of the first team have an average GPA of 3.89, with the entire Division III team retaining a collective average GPA of 3.85.
Lexow, a psychology major, has a 4.00 grade point average at Gallaudet, the world's only university with programs and services specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students. The 5-foot-10 guard/forward is a second year member of the GU women's basketball team and is in graduate school at GU. Lexow received her undergraduate degree from University of Virginia where she played on the women's soccer team. Lexow was one of 10 finalists for the 2024-25 Jostens Trophy, awarded to the outstanding NCAA Division III men's and women's basketball players who excel on the court, in the classroom, and in the community. She was named to the D3hoops.com All-Region Third Team, All-ECAC Second Team and played in the 2025 WBCA Division III Senior All-Star Game last month. In addition to her United East Defensive Player of the Year award, Lexow received a second straight selection to the All-United East First Team. Lexow helped Gallaudet win the United East championship and make its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2011. Lexow concludes her GU career with 813 points, 309 rebounds, 205 assists, 173 steals and 99 blocks in 56 games (54 starts).
This is the fourth CSC Academic All-America® honor the Gallaudet University women's basketball program has earned. Lexow joins Cassidy Perry (2022-23 - second team, 2023-24 - first team) and Hannah Neild (2018-19), who was a first team selection and earned the Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for Division III women's basketball.
Natalie Bruns, a three-time Academic All-America® honoree from New York University, was voted Academic All-American of the Year for Division III women's basketball for a second consecutive time. The other first team honorees include; Burns, Kacie Carollo (Wis.-Whitewater), Lauren Huber (Ill. Wesleyan), Kasey Schipfer (Ohio Wesleyan) and Zoë Tomlinson (Colorado College).
To be eligible for College Sports Communicators Academic honors, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at their current institution and be nominated by their athletic communicator/sports information director. A new requirement that started in 2023-24 is student-athletes must compete in 90 percent of the institution's games/contests played or must start in at least 66 percent of the games/contests/matches.
Gallaudet Associate Athletic Director for Communications Sam Atkinson, a College Sports Communicators Past President, nominated Lexow for this honor and has helped Gallaudet athletics increase its Academic All-America totals, elevenfold, in his 15 years at the helm. Gallaudet has earned 22 Academic All-America selections in program history since the inception of the awards in 1952. Twenty of the 22 honors have come in the last 14 years as GU earned at least one every year for six years straight (2012-17).
For more information regarding the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America® program, visit https://academicallamerica.com/.
GALLAUDET'S COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® WOMEN'S BASKETBALL HONOREES
* - Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year
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About College Sports Communicators Academic All-America® ProgramCollege Sports Communicators (CSC) began the distinguished Academic All-America® program in 1952, and since then, has honored more than 40,000 deserving student-athletes from numerous sports across all divisions with these elite Academic All-America® scholar-athlete honors. Currently, CSC honors Academic All-Americans in 16 sports.
The Division II and III CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2024-25 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA governance structure.
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