Payton Lowrey (1/12/2023) - Athlete Awards - Grinnell College Athletics

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Payton Lowrey

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1/12/2023
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Women's Volleyball
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Grinnell College volleyball players have claimed many big awards in the program's 49-year history, particularly in recent years.

One award had eluded the Pioneers during that span, but that all changed today with one of the biggest honors a college student-athlete can earn - a spot on the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America® Team. Payton Lowrey '22, a record-breaking libero from St. Louis, Mo. (Cor Jesu Academy), collected third-team honors in the NCAA Division III category.

Lowrey is one of just 22 players, and the only one from the Midwest Conference, to be honored at the Division III level. She is one of six players on the third team, while the first and second teams each had eight selections.

Besides being Grinnell's first volleyball player to earn Academic All-America@ recognition, she is just the 26th Pioneer overall to be honored. Lowrey is the first student-athlete at Grinnell to be named Academic All-America@ in a women's sport in nearly 10 years.

The Academic All-America Team@ recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. The squad is selected by members of the College Sports Communicators (formerly College Sports Information Directors of America, or CoSIDA), including Grinnell Sports Information Director Ted Schultz.

The chemistry major was the MWC Player of the Year and ranked eighth nationally in digs per set at 6.18 and 11th in digs with 649. Both of those figures are school records.

Lowrey's other school records included aces in a three-set match (nine), digs in a three-set match (33), career aces (210), career digs (2,067), career digs per set (4.64) and career set played (445). She led Grinnell to 80 victories in her career and a combined MWC record of 27-7, including a league tournament title and berth in the NCAA National Tournament in 2019.

Athlete Awards
Date	Athlete	Sport
12/10/2013	Michael Brus	Men's Swimming and Diving
12/10/2013	Chloe Briney	Women's Swimming and Diving
11/26/2013	Ana Karin Kozjek	Women's Swimming and Diving
11/26/2013	Patrick Maher	Men's Basketball
11/19/2013	Daniel Goldstein	Men's Swimming and Diving
11/19/2013	Jack Taylor	Men's Basketball
11/16/2013	Ben Weideman	Men's Swimming and Diving
11/16/2013	Beth Tsuha	Women's Swimming and Diving
10/23/2013	David Ternes	Football
10/23/2013	Emma Macdonald	Women's Tennis
10/17/2013	Shirlene Luk	Women's Tennis
10/17/2013	Elle Silverman	Women's Soccer
10/9/2013	Sadhana Athreya	Women's Tennis
10/9/2013	Stephanie Spahr	Women's Golf
10/3/2013	Ben Tyler	Men's Cross Country
10/3/2013	Sydney McClendon	Women's Volleyball
9/27/2013	Sarah Burnell	Women's Cross Country
9/20/2013	Frank Canady	Men's Cross Country
9/20/2013	Claire Weidman	Women's Volleyball
9/11/2013	Hanna Feldman	Women's Tennis