Katie McElrath

Missouri S&T junior forward Katie McElrath has been selected to the academic all-district first team for District 7 for the 2007-08 season by ESPN The Magazine and the College Sports Information Directors of America.

As a first team selection, McElrath will be eligible for academic All-America honors; that team will be announced in March.

McElrath is currently the Lady Miners' second-leading scorer with an average of 11.7 points per game and currently leads the Great Lakes Valley Conference in field goal percentage at 57.2 percent. She is also averaging 6.4 rebounds a game and ranks fourth in the league in blocked shots with 28.

Among her on-court highlights for the current season are a career-high 24 point outing in an overtime loss to sixth-ranked Drury last week and a game-winning three-pointer with five seconds left to give the Lady Miners a win over Kentucky Wesleyan in the midst of the team's 10-game winning streak.

McElrath, who is from Owasso, Okla., is majoring in civil engineering at Missouri S&T and is a two-time member of the GLVC's all-academic team.