Report by LBSU

Senior Lauren Sims (Fullerton, Calif./Troy HS) has been named to the 2009-10 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women’s Basketball Second Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

The 5-foot-9 guard is LBSU’s second-leading scorer, averaging 11.7 points per game. She is also tops on the team in 3-pointers made (60) and 3-point field goal percentage (39.5 percent). Sims has posted 16 double-figure scoring games, including a career-high 25 points at Miami (Fla.) where she tied a school single-season record with seven threes.

Sims has etched her name in Long Beach State’s record books, ranking second among the 49er career leaders in 3-point field goals made (158) and 3-point field goals attempted (423). She is also fourth in 3-point field goal percentage (37.4 percent).

In addition to her success on the court, Sims has excelled in the classroom, maintaining a 4.0 cumulative grade-point average as a biology-physiology major with a minor in chemistry. She was Long Beach State’s 2009-10 Rhodes Scholar candidate and was also a nominee for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. Sims was recently inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Phi Kappa Phi Society at LBSU.

Earlier this year, Sims earned first-team CoSIDA Academic All District VIII honors after garnering second-team recognition in each of the last two years. She is also a two-time Academic All-Big West selection.

Sims joins Shannon Smith (1988) and Dana Wilkerson (1990) as Long Beach State’s only CoSIDA Women’s Basketball Academic All-Americans. Both Smith and Wilkerson earned third-team honors.

Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.