Carroll Voted CAC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year
York, Pa. – St. Mary's College of Maryland senior women's soccer and women's lacrosse standout Karisa Carroll (Long Island, N.Y./Ward Melville) was selected by the Capital Athletic Conference athletic directors and sports information directors as the 2009-10 CAC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.20 cumulative grade point average, demonstrate athletic success and be a major contributor to her program.
It is the second straight year, and fourth time since 1999, that an SMCM student-athlete captured the CAC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. Carroll joins former Seahawk standouts Erica Pearson (1999, volleyball/basketball), Kathy Holmes (2002, soccer/lacrosse) and Emily Smithson (2009, field hockey) as scholar-athlete of the year award winners. Carroll is also the sixth multi-sport athlete to win the award.
Carroll graduated in May with a B.A. in chemistry while minoring in Spanish and boasting a 3.71 cumulative grade point average. She earned Dean's List recognition all eight semesters and was recently named one of three 2010 winners of a Maryland Association of College Directors of Athletics (MACDA) postgraduate scholarship. Carroll was also voted as the 2009-10 SMCM Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
She has been accepted into the University of Maryland's Dental School and will begin her coursework in August. At the end of four years, Carroll will receive her Doctorate of Dental Surgery. After completing the Dental School program at Maryland, she plans on pursuing a post-doctorate residency program in orthodontics.
In soccer, she helped lead St. Mary’s to a four-year record of 36-30-7 (19-9-3 CAC) as well as the program’s first-ever CAC championship title and NCAA tournament berth in 2008. Carroll was a two-time second team All-CAC selection (2008, 2009) as a four-year starting defender. The two-year team captain ended her career having played (and started) in 71 of 73 possible games played during her four-year stint, tallying nine points on two goals and five assists. In 2008, Carroll was an honorable mention NSCAA/adidas® College Women Scholar All-East Region after excelling in the classroom as well.
She was also a two-year team captain, three-time All-CAC defender and two-time all-region choice for the women's lacrosse team from 2007 to 2009. Carroll led the team in ground balls all three of her seasons and helped the Seahawks to a berth in the CAC championship game as well as the program’s seventh bid to the NCAA tournament in 2008. She was selected as a 2009 IWLCA Scholar-Athlete while being a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa leadership and Chi Alpha Sigma student-athlete honor societies.
Carroll contributed to the community as well, volunteering her services at St. Mary’s Hospital (Leonardtown, Md.) and Smithtown General Dentistry in New York.
