Hudepohl and Murphy Named to CoSIDA Academic All-District Team
(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – Carnegie Mellon University juniors Jackie Hudepohl (Saratoga, Calif./Lynbrook/Colgate) and Lisa Murphy (McLean, Va./McLean) have been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 2015-16 Women's Basketball Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Hudepohl and Murphy are two of five players on the District 4 team. To be nominated for the award, a student-athlete must be a starter or significant reserve and maintain a GPA of 3.3 or better.
Carnegie Mellon is part of District 4 which is comprised of all Division III schools in the state of Pennsylvania. Both Hudepohl and Murphy will now move on to the national ballot for Academic All-America recognition.
Hudepohl carries a 4.0 GPA while majoring in mathematics with a concentration in statistics. She is also minoring in both computer science and computational finance. In her first full season with the Tartans after an injury sidelined her after five games last year, Hudepohl is averaging 14.8 points and 8.3 rebounds a game. The junior is shooting 45.8% from the floor and dishing out 2.6 assists a game while blocking 1.3 shots per game.
Away from the court, Hudepohl spent last summer as a research assistant in computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis while also participating in a workshop on applications of mathematics at Duke University. She has been a teaching assistant for three different classes in the mathematics and computer science departments at Carnegie Mellon and a peer tutor in academic development. The summer before attending Carnegie Mellon, Hudepohl was a math tutor and SAT instructor at The Tutoring Center of Mountain View in Mountain View, California. This coming summer the junior will serve as a trading intern at Susquehanna International Group.
Murphy holds a 3.78 GPA in psychology while pushing out a stat line of 23.6 points per game, 11.1 rebounds per game, 1.7 blocks per game and 1.5 assists per game. Contributing to her 23.6 points per game is the nation's best shooting percentage of 76.4%. She needs 34 points to surpass her own school record of points scored in a season of 505 with five games to play in the regular season. In the first game of the season, Murphy scored her 1,000th career point and is now 156 points shy of being the all-time leading scorer in Carnegie Mellon women's basketball history.
When not playing basketball, Murphy spends her time as a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council and secretary of Psi Chi, the International Psychology Honor Society. She has interned with the Children's School at Carnegie Mellon, spent time as a summer camp aide at Life Changing Fitness Kids in Falls Church, Virginia, and volunteered for Special Olympics and Best Buddies.
The Tartans (15-5, 4-5), who have had the best start in school history at 13-0 and entered the national rankings for the second time in school history, will be in action at the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis this weekend.