Overdevest Earns First-Team Academic All-District III Honors

It marks the second straight season that Ryan Overdevest has earned Academic All-District III honors.

11/02/07 5:00PM

Williamsburg - For the second straight season, senior midfielder Ryan Overdevest was named to the ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-District III squad. Last season, the Bridgeton, N.J., native garnered first-team academic all-district honors on his way to ESPN The Magazine Second-Team Academic All-America distinction. Overdevest was one of four midfielders and 12 overall players selected to the academic all-district squad.

This season, Overdevest has helped the Tribe to an 8-6-3 overall mark and a 5-2-1 ledger in the CAA. W&M is currently battling for a spot in the CAA Tournament and sits third place in the league standings with 16 points. Overdevest has started 13 matches, while playing in all 17 for the College. He has one assist on the season, providing the helper on the Tribe’s game-winning tally against VCU. For his career, Overdevest has played in 57 matches, earning 21 starts.

The senior co-captain has been a standout in the classroom as well as the pitch. He carries a perfect grade point average along with his Academic All-America honors from a season ago. During the last three seasons, Overdevest has won the W&M Alumni Award for the highest GPA on the Tribe men’s soccer team. Last spring, he was named the W&M Robert M. Usry Award winner. The award is given annually to a varsity athlete who has earned at least one varsity letter, has the highest GPA of any athlete at the end of his/her junior year and has completed 75 percent of his/her degree requirements for graduation.

Overdevest and the Tribe returns to action with a pair of CAA road affairs against Drexel on Nov. 2 and Delaware on Nov. 4. The Drexel match is slated for a 7 p.m. start time, while the Delaware match will begin at 1 p.m. The College will wrap up the regular season with Senior Night on Thursday, Nov. 8, when it hosts Old Dominion.

ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-District III
Filipe Carvalho, Goalkeeper, Georgia State
Joseph Germanese, Midfielder, Duke
RYAN OVERDEVEST, MIDFIELDER, W&M
Scott Dillie, Midfielder, Virginia Tech
Michael Videira, Midfielder, Duke
Joshua Bienenfeld, Midfielder, Duke
Julian Valentin, Midfielder, Wake Forest
Eddie Ababio, Midfielder, North Carolina
Mike Gelatt, Midfielder, Liberty
Anton Axelsson, Midfielder, Jacksonville
Bill Dworsky, Midfielder, North Carolina
Zack Schilawski, Midfielder, Wake Forest