After an impressive year of tearing up the bowling alleys at Caldwell University, the Collegiate Sports Communicators (CSC) has selected senior bowler and Parsippany, N.J., native Lauren Marks to the 2024-25 Academic All-America Women’s Division II At-Large First Team, today the college’s athletic department announced.
Marks, the two-time Central Athletic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Bowler of the Year and NCTA Honorable Mention All-America, is a two-time Academic All-American, having earned Third Team honors this past campaign.
Additionally, the CSC choose Marks as one of 15 First Team selections nationwide in the At-Large category, which encompasses sports such as bowling, lacrosse, field hockey, skiing, crew/rowing, golf, beach volleyball, water polo, rifle, gymnastics and others which do not have their own separate CSC Academic All-America category.
Marks, a Parsippany High School alum, is the only bowler on the First Team and one of only two bowlers among the 45 combined Division II honorees among all three teams.
“We are extremely proud of Lauren’s accomplishments over the past four years at Caldwell University,” Mark A. Corino, Caldwell University Assistant Vice President and Director of Athletics, said in a press release. “She has raised the bar on both the academic and athletic side for not only our bowling program but for the entire department and University. This honor is well-deserved and we couldn’t be happier for her success.”
Marks, a Fine Arts major with an impressive 3.95 GPA, was an All-CACC First team performer, three-time CACC All-Academic and CSC Third Team Academic All-America performer in her senior year in 2024-25.
She paced the CACC in individual scoring average (20.375 pins/frame overall, 20.189 in Baker, 20.632 in Traditional), almost a full pin more than the next competitor, frame fill percentage (86.5%), strike percentage (50.6%), spare percentage (92.2%) and pretty much every statistical category the league publishes.
In 2023-24, she earned the NTCA Strike Percentage Leader Award for Division II for 2023-24, racking up a 48.30 percent rate, and was a member of the organization’s All-Academic Team. She also earned the CACC Student-Athlete of the Month for March 2024.
Marks is Caldwell’s 15th Academic All-American and first to earn First Team honor since softball standout Sydney Ponto and women’s basketball star Kristen Drogsler, both of whom received the top distinction in 2017.
— Jerry Del Priore
Photo: Caldwell Athletics.
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