Beaudoin Repeats on CoSIDA Academic All-District Women’s Volleyball Team

(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – Carnegie Mellon University senior Vivian Beaudoin (Washington, N.J. / Warren Hills) was named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District Women's Volleyball Team for the second straight season when the association made the announcement today. Beaudoin is one of eight honored 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 that is comprised of all Division III schools in the state of Pennsylvania. Beaudoin will now move on to the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration.

Beaudoin entered the starting lineup full time as a sophomore and was second on the team in kills with 226 and third in blocks with 70 on her way to earning All-University Athletic Association (UAA) Second Team honors in 2019. She had eight matches with double-digit kills and recorded a career-high seven blocks against Otterbein University with six against third-ranked Juniata. In four matches in the spring of 2021, Beaudoin led the team in blocks with 15 and was third in kills with 20. Beaudoin's senior season finished with another All-UAA Second Team honor after the right side hitter led the team in kills with 289 with a hitting percentage of .251. She collected another 70 blocks to bring her career total to 155. Beaudoin amassed 544 career kills in 70 matches played and put down a career-best 22 kills against nationally-ranked Emory University.

In the classroom, Beaudoin maintains a 4.0 GPA as an electrical and computer engineering major. She volunteered with Special Olympics and CMU Field Day in 2019, and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Honor Society and Tau Beta Pi, the Carnegie Institute of Technology Honor Society. Additionally, Beaudoin is a member of the Society of Women Engineers and Women in ECE. She has twice been honored at the Student-Athlete Academic Achievement Celebration, which celebrates juniors and seniors carrying the highest GPAs across each academic college and team.

In the summer of 2020, Beaudoin was a software development engineering intern at Amazon. Apple has also drawn her interest, as she was a hardware design verification intern at the company during the summer of 2021.