Emma Leyden, Tucker Center intern and women’s basketball player at Macalester College,
was recently awarded Academic All-Conference honors by the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC).
Leyden studies psychology while serving as co-captain and point guard for her team at Macalester College. A Tucker Center intern for the past two summers, she hopes to continue to learn more about how she can make a difference in gender equity in sports, and she is excited to be a part of groundbreaking research.
MIAC Academic All-Conference honors are awarded to student-athletes who have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher and have competed in 50% of their team’s varsity regular season contests with this certificate.