May 27, 2005

Wayne State University senior fencer Anna Vinnikov (Ma'alot, Israel) has been voted to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District IV University Division Women's At-Large Second Team for the third consecutive year.

Vinnikov was in the University Division, which consists of Division I student-athletes, because WSU competes in Division I in fencing.

Vinnikov, who was born in Minsk, Belarus, has a 3.94 grade-point average in finance through seven semesters at WSU.

She was a honorable mention All-American in March 2005 by placing 11th at the NCAA Championships. She was a second-team All-American in the epée at the 2003 NCAA Fencing Championships helping the Warriors women's team to a 12th place finish at the national championship. In 2004 she placed 16th as WSU finished ninth at the NCAA national championship meet.

As a freshman in 2002, she was 13th at the NCAA Championships just missing All-America honors (top 12 earn All-American status).

The District IV Academic team was selected by members of CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) located in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama.

The At-Large team represents athletes from the following women's sports: bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo.