Three Wooster Booters Selected Academic All-District

Andrew Etter

Tim Presto

Etter and Presto picked up first-team recognition and move on to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team® ballot, while Conaway was a second-team honoree within the district.

Etter, a senior double-majoring in political science and Spanish, led Wooster’s midfield line this fall. He started 15 matches and tallied one assist, while playing a key role on a defense that ranked second in the North Coast Athletic Conference in goals allowed (0.81 per game). A two-year starter, Etter appeared in 67 of a possible 69 career matches and totaled five points.

Presto, who is majoring in mathematics, anchored the Fighting Scots’ backfield during 2005, in addition to ranking second on the team in scoring with five points coming on two goals and an assist over 16 starts. The junior was the cornerstone of a Wooster defense, which posted six shutouts and didn’t allow an opponent more than two goals in a game all season.

Conaway, a senior computer science major who also earned academic all-district honors last year, finished as the conference’s leading scorer for the second time during his distinguished career, averaging 1.81 points per game. Overall, he scored 12 goals and assisted on five others, moving into third-place on the Scots’ all-time scoring list with 104 points (43 goals, 18 assists).

Wooster went 9-3-4 (.688) in 2005, but struggled down the stretch, going 0-2-2 to miss out on a spot in the NCAC Tournament for the first time since 2001. Noteworthy, eight of the Scots’ 16 matches were overtime affairs, setting an NCAA Div. III record for the most overtime games in a season.

The honorees were selected by CoSIDA among key players with minimum 3.20 grade-point averages from the college division (NCAA Div. II and III, and NAIA) in Wooster’s five-state district (Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee).