Caroland Named Women's Tennis Senior Scholar Athlete
Caroland Named Women's Tennis Senior Scholar Athlete
TOWSON, Md. – The Landmark Conference selects 22 senior scholar-athletes each year to recognize the top student-athlete in each sport based on academics and athletics.
The honorees must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.20 and are selected by a committee of Landmark Conference officers, athletics directors, senior woman administrators, faculty athletic representatives, and sports information directors.
Elizabethtown senior Kailey Caroland is the Blue Jays fourth Landmark Women’s Tennis Senior-Scholar Athlete selection. She joins Christine Evangelista (2015), Madison McCall (2017), and former teammate Lenea Riehl (2021).
On the court, Caroland is a three-time All-Landmark selection in singles and doubles. She earned First Team in singles in 2021 and 2022 and was named to the Second Team in 2019. In doubles action, she earned First Team honors in 2019 and 2021 and Second Team accolades in 2022.
A four-year Dean’ List selection, Caroland was awarded numerous honors’ during her time at Elizabethtown. She was awarded the Tri-Beta National Honor Society Research Grant in 2021 and was a member of the Honors Program Independent Researcher under Dr. Jane Cavender since 2020.
She was involved in numerous research initiatives. She ran Western Blots to compare the amount of SRSF1, SAM68, and SV40 T-antigen proteins between the cell lines in hopes of better understanding the correlation between the proteins and the high growth rates of SV40 T-antigen transformed cells and was also responsible for conducting Western Blots and qPCRs to assess differing protein and gene expression levels in Ewing Sarcoma cell lines compared to various knockdown cell lines.
Caroland is currently a student at Drexel University, majoring in Molecular Medicine and minoring in Drug Discovery and Development. She graduated Elizabethtown with a degree in Biotechnology and a 3.83 grade point average.
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