{"id":2009,"date":"2010-02-24T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-wbb-lauren-sims-is-smarter-than-you\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T06:01:00","slug":"lbsu-wbb-lauren-sims-is-smarter-than-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-wbb-lauren-sims-is-smarter-than-you","title":{"rendered":"LBSU WBB: Lauren Sims Is Smarter Than You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Report by LBSU<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior Lauren Sims<\/a> (Fullerton, Calif.\/Troy HS) has been named to the 2009-10 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women’s Basketball Second Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The 5-foot-9 guard is LBSU’s second-leading scorer, averaging 11.7 points per game. She is also tops on the team in 3-pointers made (60) and 3-point field goal percentage (39.5 percent). Sims has posted 16 double-figure scoring games, including a career-high 25 points at Miami (Fla.) where she tied a school single-season record with seven threes.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sims has etched her name in Long Beach State’s record books, ranking second among the 49er career leaders in 3-point field goals made (158) and 3-point field goals attempted (423). She is also fourth in 3-point field goal percentage (37.4 percent).<\/o:p><\/p>\n

In addition to her success on the court, Sims has excelled in the classroom, maintaining a 4.0 cumulative grade-point average as a biology-physiology major with a minor in chemistry. She was Long Beach State’s 2009-10 Rhodes Scholar candidate and was also a nominee for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. Sims was recently inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Phi Kappa Phi Society at LBSU.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Sims earned first-team CoSIDA Academic All District VIII honors after garnering second-team recognition in each of the last two years. She is also a two-time Academic All-Big West selection.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sims joins Shannon Smith (1988) and Dana Wilkerson (1990) as Long Beach State’s only CoSIDA Women’s Basketball Academic All-Americans. Both Smith and Wilkerson earned third-team honors.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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But there’s no shame in being out-smarted by an Academic All-American, an honor Sims received from ESPN Magazine on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}