Marisa repeats as an Academic All-American

UNIVERSITY PARK Penn State senior Makenna Marisa repeated as a College Sports Communicators’ Academic All-American Third Team selection, the organization announced Wednesday. A third-team honoree last year, Marisa joins Susan Robinson (1991, second team; 1992, first team) and Kelly Mazzante (2002, third team; 2003, second team; 2004; first team) as Lady Lions to earn the Academic All-American distinction of two or from several seasons.

The guard has been successful on and off the court throughout his career. The early childhood education major has a 3.81 GPA and earned Academic All-Big Ten and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award honors the past two seasons.

After the regular season, Marisa became the 12th Lady Lion to be an All-Big Ten First Team selection for the second straight season. He led the team in scoring (17.5 ppg) and assists (4.2 per game), along with 60 threes and 4.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. He had 13 20-point games this year.

He is the 10th leading scorer in program history (1,785) and also ranks third in 30-point games (seven), fifth in career three-point field goals (187), seventh in career free throw percentage (81.2%). ), eighth in career scoring average (15.7 ppg), ninth in career double-digit assists (three) and 11th in career assists (441). He ranks 44th in the nation in free throw percentage and 46th in career points.

Marisa is the only Lady Lion to reach 1,750 points, 500 rebounds, 400 assists and more than 150 3-pointers in her career and is one of eight players to accomplish all of those marks.

This season, the guard is 54th in points (541), 57th in minutes played (35.5), 70th in goals and 81st in assists (129). In the Big Ten, he is second in minutes played, seventh in scoring, ninth in assists, 11th in three-pointers made and assists/blocks (1.5), 16th in assists and 17th in free throw percentage (76.3).