Schumann Adds Academic Honor

June 14, 2007

NORMAN, Okla. - Brittney Schumann, who completed her Sooner gymnastics career in April, was one of 15 female student-athletes named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America at-large first team today. Selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the team honors excellence in the classroom and competition.

This marks the second time for Schumann to earn All-America honors. She becomes the fourth Sooner student-athlete to earn CoSIDA Academic All-America honors this year. Aaron Ivey (baseball), Norrelle Dickson (softball) and Sam Hazewinkel (men's at-large) had been named to their respective national teams in the last month. Two Sooner track and field student-athletes, Cale Drumwright and Amy Backel, are in the running for those national teams that are to be announced later this month.

Nominated by members of CoSIDA, candidates for the Academic All-America team must be a starter or key reserve with legitimate athletic credentials and at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale. They must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at the school and they must have completed one full academic year at the school. Student-athletes from sports that don't have individual Academic All-America teams are eligible for the at-large teams. At OU, those sports include wrestling, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's golf, and men's and women's gymnastics.

Schumann, a first team All-American on the vault at the 2007 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships in April, earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors as a junior and is a two-time all-district first team honoree. The McQueeney, Texas, native has a 3.95 GPA in health and exercise science and will be attending medical school after completing her undergraduate degree in December. She won the 2007 NCAA Regional beam championship and tied for the 2007 Big 12 floor exercise title. She earned Big 12 Gymnast of the Week honors three times in 2007 (seven times in her career) and is OU's nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year and Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year.

She is a three-time NCAA All-American and won the 2006 Big 12 All-Around title. She also was the co-champion of the all-around at the 2006 NCAA Regional. Schumann was part of four consecutive NCAA-qualifying gymnastics teams at OU and helped the Sooners to an all-time best finish of eighth in 2007 and a first-ever NCAA Regional team title in 2006.

Active away from competition, Schumann is completing her second term as president of the OU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She also served as chair of the Big 12 SAAC in 2006-07 and was vice chair of the conference SAAC in 2005-06. She has served two terms as a representative on the NCAA SAAC in addition to the three terms on the Big 12 and OU SAAC groups.

She is a three-time honoree on the Big 12 All-Academic first team and was named a 2006 Women's Gymnastics Coaches Association Academic honoree. She is a six-time member of the President's Honor Roll at OU (4.00 grade point average) and has been named as a recipient of a 2007 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and the 2007 Dr. Prentice Gautt Big 12 Postgraduate Scholarship. She has won the OU Athletics Director's Leadership Award twice and was OU's 2007 Big 12 Conference Medal Award winner for excellence in athletics and academics. She also is an eight-time honoree on the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll and as a Sooner Scholar.

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