Grabau Earns CoSIDA Academic All-District® At-Large First Team Honors

COSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT® RELEASE

BEVERLY, Mass. — Endicott field hockey student-athlete Jaylin Grabau (Lynnfield, Mass.) has claimed CoSIDA Academic All-District® At-Large First Team honors, as announced by the organization.

Grabau will now appear on the national ballot for selection to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® team, which will be voted on by Sports Information Directors (SIDs) across the country in late July.

Additionally, Grabau is the first student-athlete in field hockey program history to garner CoSIDA Academic All-District® At-Large First Team honors. 

Grabau recently graduated with her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing alongside a 3.92 cumulative grade point average (GPA). 

Grabau, who is currently enrolled in Endicott's nursing fifth year program, is a four-time Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) All-Academic selection and a five-time National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Scholar of Distinction and Academic Squad award winner.

She also was named the 2020-21 Endicott College Female Student-Athlete of the Year earlier this spring.

In addition to those honors, Grabau is a multiple Dean's List honoree, a member of both the Phi Sigma Biological Honor Society and the Sigma Theta Tau Epsilon Chapter of the Honor Society of Nursing, and is the secretary of the Endicott College Nurses Association.

Meanwhile, her senior thesis "The Impact of Communication and Collaboration on Patient Outcomes" was selected as the best-written thesis in class and one of the top five research theses in the School of Nursing.

Grabau's internship/clinical experiences include time spent at Lawrence General Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston Medical Center, Holy Family Hospital, and Beverly Hospital.

Throughout her academic career, Grabau has been able to able to work as an intern, clinical associate, and nursing assistant in the following hospital units: intensive care units (ICUs), psychosocial, childbearing, medical-surgical, adult care, child care, and telemetry.

Grabau is CPR Certified and proficient in many nursing-related computer software.

Athletically, Grabau has notched 93 points (36g, 21a) in 68 games played for the Gulls.

Her play has guided Endicott in winning two conference championships and winning a pair of NCAA Tournament contests. Individually, Grabau was named to the All-CCC Second Team in 2019. 

She also has served as a captain of the field hockey team, is a member of the department's Emerging Leaders program and EC L.E.A.D. (Leaders of the Endicott Athletics Department).

CoSIDA Academic All-District® Program Requirements

The CoSIDA Academic All-District® program recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined academic and athletic performances.

All First Team Academic All-District® winners, which includes eight districts total, move to the national ballot and are then voted upon to the national team by members of CoSIDA's Academic All-America Committee. Endicott's district – District 1 – includes all schools from Massachusetts and Maine.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution, and be nominated by his/her sports information director.

Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III, and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.

For more information about the Academic All-District™ Teams program, please visit www.cosida.com. 

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(Photo Credit - David Le '10)