TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Indiana State women's soccer senior Katie Wells has been named to the 2018 CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division I Women's Soccer Team, as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Wells is the first student-athlete from the women's soccer program to ever be named Academic All-America and is the first from Indiana State since 2011.

Wells, who carries a 3.96 GPA in Athletic Training, is the 35th Academic All-American in the history of Sycamore Athletics. She was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-America Third Team.

Gary Brown from Sycamore Football was the first at ISU to earn this honor back in 1971 and Wells is the first for the athletics department since football's Alex Sewell and women's track and field's Kelsey Hanley were honored in 2011. 

Around the MVC, IIllinois State's Kate Del Fava represents the league on the second-team. Drake's Linda Fiorito joined Wells on the third-team.

Earlier, Wells was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District First Team to become just the fourth student-athlete in the history of the women's soccer program to earn that honor. A total of six have been named Academic All-District since the program's inception in 2000.

She was also named an All-MVC First Team selection and was a MVC All-Academic pick. She finished her career as a three-time All-MVC and three-time MVC Scholar-Athlete selection.

Wells capped her senior season with 12 goals scored which broke the previous school record of 10 set by Abby Reed in 2013. Her 31 points this season crushed the previous school record of 25 set by Lauren Podolski in 2006. She finished the year with a 1.72 points per game average which topped the previous best of 1.39 set by Podolski in the 2006 campaign. Her seven assists this season were tops in the Missouri Valley Conference and third-best ever at ISU. She finished her career with 67 points which is second in program history and only three behind Podolski's school record of 70. She finished with a 0.96 points per match average for second-best at ISU.

She finished her career with 24 career goals scored which was only one shy of Podolski's school record of 25. She finished her career with six game-winning goals, including two during her senior season. Wells scored a goal in each of her last five matches as a Sycamore.