FAU Beach Volleyball’s Carly Scarbrough Named to CCSA All-Academic Team for Second Straight Year

BOCA RATON, Fla. – (April 17, 2019)– Florida Atlantic University beach volleyball player Carly Scarbrough has been named to the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) All-Academic Team for the second year in a row, the league announced on Wednesday.

Scarbrough currently holds a 3.9 GPA while majoring in biological sciences. Earlier this year, she earned the Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal and received FAU’s Female Outstanding Academic Achievement Award at the Owlspys. Scarbrough, originally from Sarasota, Florida, has spent most of the last two years playing at the top of the Owls’ lineup and has won seven matches so far this year.

The Sandy Owls are the No. 6 seed for the CCSA Tournament and will begin pool play against 10th-seeded UAB at 1:30 p.m. on Friday.

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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:

FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.

About Florida Atlantic University:

Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.