Roberson, Abbate earn state honors

Albany’s Kiana Roberson and Braylyn Abbate have been named to the Texas High School Coaches Association Academic AllState girls basketball team.

Roberson earned firstteam honors with Abbate named to the second team.

The academic all-state award recognizes that students’ performance in the classroom can sometimes be difficult to manage while participating in athletics, but their hard work has not gone unnoticed.

The honor is open to senior athletes, trainers andmanagerswhoexcelin GPA, class rank, andACT/ SAT score. The students receive points based on each criteria. The total number of points they receive determines which team they are placed on. The classification of the school is not a factor, and there’s not a limit on how many players can make a team.

To be nominated for Academic All-State, a student must be a senior athlete, student trainer, or manager in good standing with the team; of good moral character; and have an overall grade point average of 92 or above (including courses from grades 9-11 and courses completed from grade 12).