May 28, 2004

Wayne State University junior fencer Anna Vinnikov (Ma'alot, Israel) has been named to the 2003-04 CoSIDA Academic All-District IV University Division Women's At-Large Second Team. This is the second consecutive year, she has earned second team all-district honors.

Vinnikov, who was born in Minsk, Belarus, has a perfect 3.92 grade-point average through five semesters at WSU. 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. This year she placed 16th as WSU finished ninth at the NCAA national championship meet.

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.