Hannah Lee
  • English
  • Clarksville, Tenn.

Wisconsin-Whitewater's Lee Tabbed Academic All-District by CoSIDA

2016 May 12

Hannah Lee, a native of Clarksville, Tenn., and member of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater gymnastics team, has been selected first team Women's At-Large Academic All-District 6 by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Lee is one of only 11 student-athletes to be recognized in the district, which includes Division III schools in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. At-large eligible sports on the women's side include beach volleyball, bowling, crew/rowing, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis and water polo.

To be eligible for nomination, student-athletes must carry 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.

Lee carried a 3.95 GPA through the end of the fall 2015 semester and is majoring in English and Spanish. She is now eligible to be named Academic All-America, which will be announced in early June.

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.