Presto, Bowie Named to Academic All-District Team

Tim Presto

Jason Bowie

College of Wooster defenders Tim Presto (Wadsworth, Ohio / Wadsworth) and Jason Bowie (Delaware, Ohio / Rutherford B. Hayes) were selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Men’s Soccer Team, announced the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Thursday.

Presto was voted to the first team for the second-straight year and will move on to the national ballot for Academic All-American® consideration, while Bowie picks up his first such honor as a second-team selection.

The duo played a key role in holding Wooster’s opponents to less than one goal per game on average (0.88) during the 2006 season. Overall, the Scots’ defense posted eight shutouts in 16 matches, including five during a six-game stretch midway through the year.

Presto, a senior mathematics major, started all 16 matches this fall and also factored offensively with one goal and two assists for four points. A key player throughout his career at Wooster, Presto started 53 of 60 games played and the Scots were 44-13-9 (.735) with 31 shutouts from 2003-06.

Bowie, majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, was a starter the majority of the time during 2006, marking the junior’s third-straight season as a regular in the lineup. He has played in 44 career games with  25 starts.

Wooster went 10-4-2 overall (.688) in 2006, a one-win improvement over last year, however, it narrowly missed out on a spot in the four-team North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament for the second season in a row, as the Scots’ 4-3-2 league record was good for fifth-place.

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).