WALTHAM, Mass. – Three members of the Brandeis University basketball teams have been honored by the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Award. For the men, senior Ryan Power of Waltham, Massachusetts, was recognized, while the women were represented by graduate student Francesca Marchese of Staten Island, New York, and sophomore Katherine Vaughan of Bedford, Massachusetts.

Academic All-District® honorees are considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in early December. To be eligible for CSC Academic All-District and All-America honors, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average and must compete in 90 percent of a team's contests or start 66 percent of them.

Power earned CSC Academic All-District honors for the second year in a row. This season, he averaged 7.3 points, 3.7 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.3 steals per game. He finished second on the team and eighth in the University Athletic Association in assists, while taking fourth on the team and seventh in the UAA in steals.
Off the court, Power owns a 3.84 grade-point average as a Health: Science, Society and Policy major. He is a seven-time Dean's List student, three time Academic All-UAA selection and in 2023 was named Brandeis's Male Scholar Athlete of the Year. He has interned at Woburn Nursing Center and next year will enroll at Tufts University medical school.

Marchese was also a CSC All-District selection last year as a senior. She returned for her graduate year and started every game for the third year in a row. She averaged 5.6 points per game and connected on a team-leading 40 3-pointers. In the process, she became Brandeis's all-time leader, finishing with 171 trifectas. Marchese is also the first player with four seasons of 40 or more 3s, owning three of the top 10 single season marks. She ranked sixth in the UAA in 3-pointers per game this season.
Marchese posted a 3.70 undergraduate GPA with degrees in business and psychology, and she has a 3.56 mark as a graduate student pursuing her MBA in Marketing and Strategy Innovation. Marchese is a member of Brandeis's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. As an undergraduate, she served on Brandeis's Student Union executive board and interned in the University's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office. She received the Stephen J. Cloobeck '83 Endowed Fellowship for Entrepreneurship.

Vaughan averaged 7.9 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.6 blocked shots per game this season. She set the program's single-season record with 40 blocked shots and ranked second in the UAA in blocks per game. Vaughan already ranks seventh on the Judges' career blocked shots list with two more years to go. She also finished second on the team in scoring and third in rebounding.
Vaughan is owns a 3.78 GPA with no major yet declared. She earned Academic All-UAA honors and has been on the Dean's List every semester. Vaughan is a substitute teacher for the public schools in her home town of Bedford, Massachusetts, and she is a member of Brandeis's Pre-Law Community. She will be studying abroad in Madrid this summer, studying Spanish Literature and history.

Power is a 2020 graduate of Waltham High School.

Marchese is a 2019 graduate of Staten Island Academy.

Vaughan is a 2022 graduate of Bedford High School.

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