Wheaton, Ill. – Wheaton College junior Jaime Orewiler has been named to the ESPN College Division Academic All-America women's soccer team. Orewiler was a Second Team Academic All-District selection, helping lead Wheaton to a CCIW Championship and a 20-2-1 record this season. The Thunder has advanced to the Sectional Semifinal of the 2010 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Tournament and will face Emory University on Friday in the Semifinal in Abilene, Texas.

Orewiler is a French and Mathematics double-major at Wheaton with a 3.57 cumulative grade point average. She has scored a team-high 17 goals with seven assists for the Thunder this season. She has registered two game-winning goals this season for the Thunder. Earlier this month Orewiler was selected as the CCIW Player of the Year and tabbed as a First Team All-Conference honoree. In her three seasons at Wheaton, Orewiler has scored 33 career goals, with 15 assists in 65 career matches. She is 10th all-time at Wheaton in career goals, and 12th in school history with 81 career total points.

Through the years, 44 Wheaton student-athletes have earned a total of 58 Academic All-American selections through the prestigious program. Since 2000 there have been 32 Academic All-American selections from Wheaton.

Orewiler is the sixth Academic All-America selection from the Wheaton women's soccer program to earn the honor, and the first since Sarah Richardson was named the College Division Women's Soccer Academic All-American of the Year in 2007. Other Wheaton women's soccer players to be named to the Academic All-America team are: Amber Wiersma (1999); Sarah Kron (2001); and Rebecca Mouw (2001 and 2002).

The ESPN Academic All-America program honors student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level in athletics and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA; a 2,000-plus member organization consisted of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Division I, II, III, NAIA and junior colleges covering all NCAA championship sports.