Go, Rodrigues Named to Academic All-District Teams

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina women’s golf senior Lois Kaye Go and men’s tennis sophomore Daniel Rodrigues earned spots on the 2020-21 Academic All-District 4 At-Large First Teams, the College Sports Information Directors of America announced today. They are the eighth and ninth Gamecocks to pick up Academic All-District honors so far this season and both advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot.
 
Go is a three-time Academic All-District selection with her sights set on making the Academic All-America team for a third straight season as well. The NCAA Elite 90 Award winner at the women’s golf championship, she finished her undergraduate career with a 4.0 GPA while majoring in accounting in addition to notching the second lowest scoring average in program history. A three-time Golfweek All-America Honorable Mention honoree, Go excelled for the Gamecocks throughout her time in Columbia. She is the only two-time SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year in program history, earning the award in 2019 and 2020.
 
Rodrigues, an experimental psychology major, earned his first Academic All-District selection today, adding to his two ITA Scholar-Athlete selections in his first two seasons with the Gamecocks. He finished the 2020-21 season as the NCAA Singles Championship runner-up and the No. 3 ranked player in the country, tying for the highest final ranking in program history. His 31 singles victories included 15 against nationally ranked opponents, the second-most in program history, with seven of those coming against top-25 foes. A First-Team All-SEC selection for the second time in his career, Rodrigues is just the third Gamecock to earn a spot on that team multiple times in his career.
 
The 2020-21 Academic All-District At-Large Teams, selected by CoSIDA, recognize the nation’s top student-athletes in the sports of women’s beach volleyball, women’s bowling, women’s crew/rowing, men’s and women’s fencing, women’s field hockey, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s rifle, men’s and women’s skiing, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s volleyball, men’s and women’s water polo and men’s wrestling for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom.  To be nominated by his or her school, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.3 GPA, participate in at least 50.0 percent of the team’s games and have completed one calendar year at his/her current institution.
 
The Academic All-America At-Large Teams will be named in August.
 
 
2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-District 4 At-Large First Teams