College of Wooster women's tennis Fighting Scots Elyse Errington and Abby Williams were among the College Sports Communicators' Academic All-District® honorees announced by the organization on Tuesday.

Errington, a sophomore, won six matches this season. In singles, she scored a sixth-flight 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (8) win during Wooster's 7-0 sweep of Anderson University in January. Errington won 6-2, 2-6, 1-0 (8) on the team's spring break trip at fifth singles against College of Saint Mary. In doubles, Errington opened the year with a 6-0 win at the second flight in a dual match with Capital University and won 7-6 (1) at the third position against the University of Mount Union. Errington also won 6-2 at No. 3 doubles against Saint Mary's College of Maryland.

Errington is a biochemistry and molecular biology major and member of Alpha Gamma Phi sorority on campus. This summer, Errington has a medical shadowing internship lined up and she has previously worked at Home Depot and Dayton's Plant Nursery.

Williams won 20 matches between singles and doubles this season. The senior had eight wins from the second flight in singles, including 7-5, 6-3 over DePauw University's Elle Loch, 6-0, 6-2 over Oberlin College's Rachel Allen, and 6-3, 6-0 over Wittenberg University's Celeste Hartings. In doubles, Williams moved up to No. 1 to down Ohio Wesleyan University's top pairing 6-1. Williams also won 6-4 at No. 2 against DePauw and was part of the second doubles 6-1 win over Wittenberg and the 6-3 triumph in the second flight versus John Carroll University.

The biochemistry and molecular biology major spent last summer as an intern with the summer undergraduate internship program at the University of Pennsylvania, where Williams will return to pursue a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology with a concentration in microbiology, virology, and parasitology. As an intern, Williams investigated how to limit CD8+ T cell exhaustion in the tumor microenvironment and utilized a T cell exhaustion model to identify the effect of pharmacological ISR enhancement on CD8+ T cell function. Williams also spent a summer as an intern in the microbiology department at Ohio State University. At Ohio State, Williams utilized anaerobic bacterial growth assays and microscopy techniques to evaluate how culture media affects expansion kinetics and capsule production. Williams optimized culture media for microbial polysaccharide production and isolation.

On campus, Williams was a research assistant and worked as a STEM Zone Intern for biology and chemistry. The senior was a teaching assistant for a chemistry course, volunteer for the Stark County Hunger Task Force, and founded the intramural tennis league. Williams served as treasurer for the biochemistry and molecular biology club, was a new student orientation leader, was part of the queer student union, and was a member of the women's ultimate frisbee team.