Former OMHS player named to ESPN’s academic volleyball team

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, November 29, 2005

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JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. &8212; Carson-Newman’s Meg Davis, has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV volleyball team, school officials announced on Friday.

Davis is native of Shelby County and graduated in 2003 from Oak Mountain High School where she played on the Oak Mountain volleyball team.

She also played for the Birmingham Volleyball Club.

Davis was coached her freshman season at Carson-Newman by Perry Robinson, a 1990 graduate of the University of Montevallo.

Coach Robinson is currently head volleyball coach at UM.

Davis, a 5-9 junior, has a perfect 4.0 grade point average in food nutrition. She is a member of the Carson-Newman dean’s list, SAC Commissioners Honor Roll and is enrolled in Carson-Newman’s Honors Program. Davis earned C-N Family and Consumer Sciences Division Masterson-Collins Scholarship, Child Nutrition Foundation Schwan’s Food Service Scholarship, C-N Presidential Honors Scholarship, American Dietetic Association Foundation Geraldine M. Piper Scholarship and the C-N Kellye J. Tollett Scholarship. She is a member of Kappa Omicron Nu, serving as secretary, Omicron Delta Kappa and Alpha Chi.

Davis had 212 kills and 62 blocks for the Lady Eagles this season. She led her team in competition at the South Atlantic Conference Tournament in Hickory, N.C. earlier this year.

Members of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District team are voted on by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America. District IV is comprised of colleges and universities from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama