William Peace University student recognized for sportsmanship

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Rachel Lyons

RALEIGH, NC (02/25/2013)(readMedia)-- William Peace University student Rachel Lyons was recently recognized for making the South Women's Basketball All-Conference Team for All-Sportsmanship.

Lyons, a member of the 2012-13 Pacers basketball squad, joins 30 student-athletes voted in by their basketball coaches.

The South Atlantic Conference (SAC) is a college athletic conference, which operates in the southeastern United States. It was founded in 1975 as a football-only conference and became an all-sports conference beginning with the 1989–90 season.

The league currently sponsors seven sports for men (football, cross country, soccer, basketball, baseball, tennis and golf) and seven sports for women (volleyball, cross country, soccer, basketball, softball, tennis and golf).

William Peace University is located in the heart of Raleigh, North Carolina. It was founded in 1857 as Peace Institute, offering education for boys and girls in primary grades and to women from high school to college. Peace, an all women's college, became a four-year baccalaureate college and graduated its first bachelor's students in August of 1996. Exclusively an all-women's institution for its first 152 years, Peace began offering coeducational evening courses through the William Peace School of Professional Studies in 2009. In 2011, Peace College transitioned to William Peace University and will begin admitting male students to its day program in fall 2012. Its mission is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. On average, more than 90 percent of the university's graduates are placed in jobs or graduate school within one year of graduation. For more information, please visit www.peace.edu.