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Anne Li Briand Selected for Degree Completion Award

The senior is majoring in industrial engineering and is a two-time GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team selection.

By: Cameron Weidenthaler, Assistant Media Relations Director
Anne Li Briand

Women's Tennis | 6/8/2015 10:30:00 AM

DETROIT -- Wayne State University women's tennis senior standout Anne Li Briand (Repentigny, Que.) has been chosen to receive a NCAA Division II Degree Completion Award.

The NCAA established the Division II Degree Completion Award Program in 2001 to provide deserving student-athletes financial assistance for them to complete their first baccalaureate degree. Candidates will be students who have exhausted their athletics eligibility and have received athletics financial aid. The selection process for the national award emphasizes the academic performance of the student-athlete. Other factors considered are financial circumstances, athletic achievement and involvement in campus and community activities. To date, nearly $4 million has been given to approximately 1,000 deserving student-athletes. Of those student-athletes who have received the award since its inception, 94 percent have earned their undergraduate degree using this program.

Past Degree Completion Award Winners from Wayne State
2008-09:  Erika Barczak (Women's Diving), Lindsey Perry (Softball)
2007-08:  Dan Barnes (Football/Baseball), Kyle Hill (Baseball)
2005-06:  David Lutz (Swimming)

2007-08:  (Division 1) Peyton Patterson
Briand, a senior industrial engineering major, is the first WSU recipient since 2012. She finished her career with a program record 96 singles victories and ranks second in school history with 96 doubles victories. She paired with fellow senior Yahsha Moore at the top flight of doubles and posted a 26-3 overall record (11-1 GLIAC) and finished the season ranked as the top duo in the region and 19th nationally. Briand is a two-time selection to the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team and also was named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team. In addition, she received a DII ADA Academic Achievement Award in 2012-13 and a ITA Scholar-Athlete Award in 2011-12. Briand was named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (Term GPA 3.5+) for Winter 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2014 and Winter 2015, and was selected to the Coach's Honor Roll (Term GPA 3.0-3.49) for Fall 2011, Winter 2013, Fall 2013 and Winter 2014.

On the court, she is a three-time All-GLIAC honoree including a Second Team nod this past season and has recorded an overall record of 193-39 across singles and doubles.
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Anne Li Briand

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