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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, February 19, 1994                   TAG: 9402210341
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

TECH, RADFORD WOMEN MAKE THE GRADE

Virginia Tech women's basketball player Christi Osborne is the top vote-getter on the 1994 GTE District III University Division Academic All-America team, which also includes Radford's Samantha Gilbert.

Osborne, a junior majoring in early childhood development and communications, has a 3.91 grade-point average. Gilbert, a senior history major, has a 4.0 grade-point average at Radford.

"She embodies the concept of a student-athlete," Radford coach Lubomyr Lichonczak said of Gilbert.

Osborne, from Burlington, Ky., is a two-time GTE District III selection, and was the Metro Conference Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1993. Osborne averages 14 points per game. 


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