COMPLETE CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Lesley University men's tennis student-athlete Thomas Nicol (Acton, Mass.) was named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team as announced by the organization.
To be eligible to earn CSC Academic All-District recognition, a student-athlete must own a cumulative GPA above 3.50 and have significant athletic credentials. Additionally, student-athletes must have competed in have been in 70 percent of the team's matches.
Nicol earned CSC Academic All-District honors for the first time in his career and is working toward a degree in Graphic Design while posting a 4.00 GPA. This year for the Lynx, Nicol played in all 12 matches for the Lynx this year who finished 3-9 on the year. In the Lynx's first win since April 21, 2018 after topping VTSU Johnson on April 19 (5-4), Nicol played a key part that day winning his singles match in the No.1 spot by a score of 6-2, 6-3. Overall on the year, Nicol won three singles matches against SUNY Delhi (April 12), and VTSU Johnson (April 19) all of which came in the top spot.
About College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 4,400+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a membership-wide vote on August 31, 2022.
From its found in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The name change signaled a major step in a larger strategic plan to highlight the association's evolution and expansion. The move better aligns with the association's membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital and creative college sports industry, regardless of position or title.
The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.
CSC's membership first reached the 3,000 mark during the 2013-14 school year and has topped that threshold each year since with the exception of the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic year. The membership base reached 4,000 for the first time in 2022-23.
Prior to the formation of the organization as CoSIDA in the mid-1950s, sports information directors as a group were a part of the American College Public Relations Association. Most SIDs at those ACPRA meetings eventually felt that a separate organization was needed and that led to CoSIDA's formation. There were 102 members at the original meeting/convention in 1957.