GREENWOOD, Indiana – Adding on to her impressive week of earning multiple athletic awards, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) placed Marist Women's Basketball senior captain Rebekah Hand on the 2019-20 Academic All-District Team for District I, the organization announced on Thursday.
 
Hand is the only MAAC student-athlete to be selected to a CoSIDA All-District Team. She is the first Red Fox to garner recognition for the award since 2015. The announcement comes after the Argyle, Texas native was selected as the MAAC and MBWA Division I Player of the Week on February 17 and 18, respectively.

The senior captain joins Ivy League student-athletes Ellen Margaret Andrews of Yale, Laura Bagwell-Katalinich of Cornell, Jeannie Boehm of Harvard, and Annie McKenna of Dartmouth, as well as Hanna Crymble of Vermont on the District I team.
 
Hand, a Biology major, is averaging a career-best 18 points per game, the highest on the team, and shooting 52.7 percent from the field. Both figures rank second in the MAAC this season. She has scored 10 or more points in every game this season, and has reached the 20-point plateau eight times, including a 32-point outburst against Siena on February 16 that tied her career-high.
 
Entering Thursday's game against Saint Peter's, Hand ranks second in program history with 1,885 points and 646 field goals, and third with 233 three-pointers. She also ranks in the top 10 in the Marist annals in points per game, free throws made, free throw percentage, assists, and rebounds. She is one of two Red Foxes (Corielle Yarde) to rank top 10 in points, rebounds, assists, and field goals.
 
The 2019-20 CoSIDA Academic All-District® Women's Basketball Team, selected by CoSIDA, recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team (if applicable) Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in mid-March.