Portions of this story courtesy of Brown Athletics Communications and Cornell Athletic Communications

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Brown senior Erika Steeves and Cornell junior Laura Bagwell-Katalinich represent Ivy League women’s basketball on the 2018-19 CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-District team, recognizing the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom.
 
Steeves has now earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors in each of the last three years, while Bagwell-Katalinich receives her first such honor.
 
In order to earn Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-District honors, a student-athlete must participate as a starter or an important reserve, have reached sophomore academic standing, and maintain at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average.
 
Steeves is averaging 10.4 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.1 assists for the Bears. One of Brown's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Co-Presidents, the International Relations and Social Analysis and Research double concentrator served as an Investment Analyst Summer Intern at the Brown University Investment Office in the summer of 2018. In the summer of 2017, Steeves spent 23 days traveling through China, studying the market for amateur and professional basketball there through a Royce Fellowship for Sport and Society.
 
Bagwell-Katalinich, the Big Red's first Academic All-District selection since Nicholle Aston in 2015-16, ranks in the top 10 in the Ivy League in scoring (fourth – 15.6), rebounding (fourth – 8.0), field goal percentage (ninth – .461), free throw percentage (first – .866) and offensive rebounds per game (3.4). She also ranks 11th overall in steals per game (1.5) and defensive rebounds (4.6). Off the court, she owns a 3.92 grade-point average while majoring in Communications.
 
Steeves and Bagwell-Katalinich advance to the Google Cloud Academic All-America ballot. The Academic All-America honorees will be announced in mid-March.