GRAND FORKS, N.D. --- University of North Dakota's senior Amanda Kaler has been named to the 2009 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America at-large second team (University Division) by a vote of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), becoming the first-ever Fighting Sioux women's golf student athlete to make the team.

Kaler, a native of Fargo, N.D. and public administration major, helped lead the women's golf team in its transition into Division I with an 80.8 scoring average during five fall events and 85.4 during the spring with two top-10 finishes in the fall.

A 2009 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient, Kaler earned Great West Conference Player of the Week honors (April 1) after pacing UND with a 20^th place finish at the Sacramento State Invitational. She was named UND's Dakota Award recipient in 2008 for academics, a two-time NCC Academic At-Large selection, 2007 NCC Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll, a two-time All-NCC performer while competing in the NCAA DII Championship twice and helping the Sioux to a sixth-place finish in 2007.