AUSTIN, Texas -- Senior women's court volleyball players Payton Gidney and Emmarose Neibert of Spring Hill College (SHC) have been named to the 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-District 5 team in the NCAA Division II as announced by the Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) on Thursday afternoon.
 
Gidney, an outside hitter from Grapevine, Texas majoring in Psychology, has earned three athletic letters with the Badgers. She was a member of the 2018 and 2019 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Commissioner's All-Academic Team as well as the 2017-18, and 2018-19 SIAC Volleyball All-Academic teams. In her career, Gidney has appearances in 371 sets of 127 matches with 556 kills, 111 aces, 64 assists, 920 digs and 56 (8/48) blocks.
 
Neibert, a setter from Arnold, Mo. majoring Business Management & Marketing, also has earned three athletic letters and was the 2018 SIAC Setter of the Year. She currently has 3022 career assists with 110 kills, 80 aces, 679 digs and 51 (6/45) blocks. Neibert was a member of the SIAC Commissioner's All-Academic Team as a sophomore and as a junior.
 
Both student-athletes now move onto consideration for the 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America Award^® that recognizes athletes holding a career GPA of 3.3 or higher while at the same time making significant on-field contributions to their team.