UW-Whitewater's Hannah Lee Named Academic All-American

2016 Jun 7

Hannah Lee, a native of Clarksville, Tenn., and senior on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater gymnastics team, has been selected a second team Division III Women's At-Large Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

A graduate of Clarksville High School, Lee is the fourth Academic All-American in program history and the third in the last four years. She is one of only three gymnasts at Division III institutions to earn Academic All-America accolades this season.

To be eligible for Academic All-America status, student-athletes must be named to an Academic All-District first team. They must have carried a 3.30 grade point average or higher on a 4.0 scale, must have participated in at least 50 percent of their team's contests and must be of sophomore athletic eligibility to earn nomination.

Lee finished the 2015 fall semester with a 3.95 cumulative GPA. She graduated last month with a bachelor's in English and Spanish.

In 2016, Lee garnered the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Gymnastics Judy Kruckman Co-Scholar Athlete of the Year award and earned second team National Collegiate Gymnastics Association All-America accolades on the balance beam. She was a three-time All-WIAC honoree and a member of two conference championship teams and a pair of national title teams during her career.

Academically, Lee was a three-time WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll member and three-time NACGC/W Scholastic All-American. She was also named an NCGA Academic All-American and a UW-Whitewater Chancellor's Scholar-Athlete in 2016. Lee was a recipient of the Letters and Sciences Alumni Scholarship, Lois D. Fritscher Scholarship, Corinne E. Forster Endowment and the Cartwright Scholarship. In 2015, she was selected Outstanding Junior in the College of Letters and Sciences.

Lee was actively involved in the campus community during her career. She served as co-founder and co-president of UW-Whitewater's I AM THAT GIRL chapter, and was a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Lee also volunteered for the Let's Move Girls program and the team's annual Breast Cancer 5K walk/run.