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HUMPHRIES PICKS UP ANOTHER ACADEMIC HONOR
 DENTON , Texas – Texas Woman’s University junior Kelley Humphries made the 2006 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Women’s Basketball first team for the second consecutive year announced by Diverse Issues in Higher Education (formerly Black Issues in Higher Education).
The Sports Scholars Awards honor undergraduate students of color who have made achieving both academically and athletically a winning combination. To be included, students have to compete in an intercollegiate sport; maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.2; and be active on their campuses or in their communities.
Humphries also earned Lone Star Conference South Division All-Academic Team and ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VI College Division Women’s Basketball Second Team accolades. The Coupland, Texas, native has perfect 4.0 grade point average in biology with a pre-medicine emphasis. On the court, she started 21 games and averaged 2.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game.
Additionally, Humphries was elected President of the 2005-06 TWU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) by her peers for the second straight year. This year she helped with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and with the Martin Luther King basketball camps. She is a member of the 2004, 2005 and 2006 TWU Dean’s List, a McNair Scholar, in the honors program and a recipient of a TWU Presidential Scholarship for graduating second in her high school class. Humphries also receives a Kitty Magee Scholarship which awards outstanding academic and athletics achievements and was named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges .
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