Randolph-Macon senior Kelly Williams (Garysburg, N.C./Halifax Academy) has been selected to the District 5 Academic All-District team, it was announced last week.

The team is administered by the College Sports Information Directors and is selected by collegiate athletic communications professionals from across District 5, which encompasses 12 states and Puerto Rico. Williams was one of five student-athletes recognized, joining two others from the Commonwealth of Virginia as well as two other student-athletes from the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.

To be selected, nominees must have at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average and participate in at least 50 percent of the team's contests. All five member of this year's team, including Williams, checked in with GPA's above 3.80. Williams will now move on to be a nominee for the Academic All-American squad, selected across all eight Districts.

Williams is an accounting and computer science double major. She has been on the Dean's List each semester and received the prestigious Douglas W. Foard Freshman and C. Lyndon Harrell sophomore awards from national honor society Phi Beta Kappa. She is a three-time Academic All-ODAC selectee and was named an Academic All-American and All-District team member by CoSIDA as a sophomore. She is a statistics tutor and a peer academic coach for the Higgins Academic Center at Randolph-Macon and also mentors at a local elementary school.

On the court, Williams leads the ODAC in scoring, rebounding and is second in the conference for total blocks and blocked shots. She is ninth in the country with 16 double-doubles and has not missed a night with double-digit scoring and rebounding for more than a month.