July 28, 2010

From a USTFCCCA Release

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Purdue women's track and field team had seven individuals earn United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Track & Field All-Academic honors on Wednesday, highlighted by senior Brianna Neumann and freshman Alice Feslier Holmes. Neumann captures her third career national all-academic award from the national coaches association, while Feslier Holmes was one of just 28 athletes in the nation to receive honors with a 4.0 grade point average.

Joining Neumann and Feslier Holmes were seniors Nan Hammel and Sarah Klaczynski, junior Emily Breslin and sophomores Leah Eber and Elizabeth Stover. These seven were part of 551 NCAA Division I athletes representing 150 institutions across the country. To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have met either the NCAA Division I Indoor automatic or provisional qualifying standard or participated in the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships (including preliminary rounds) in their respective event.

The Big Ten Conference led the nation with 65 all-academic selections, edging out the Big 12 Conference, which finished with 64. Future Big Ten Conference member University of Nebraska led all schools for the second straight season with 18 individual honorees, while Brigham Young University was second with 15. Tennessee's Phoebe Wright, Indiana State's Kyle Hutson, Iowa State's Lisa Koll and Florida's Evelien Dekkers received the outstanding individual awards, as Wright and Hutson were the respective Indoor Track and Field Scholar Athletes of the Year, while Koll received track honors outdoors and Dekkers was the outdoor field scholar athlete award winner.

Scholar Athletes are determined from among those who earned All-Academic status and placed highest in individual events at the most recent NCAA Championships. Those who earn multiple individual championship titles rank higher in the tie-breaking process, and cumulative GPA is weighed as the final tiebreaker to establish a winner. Separate awards are given to track athletes and field athletes and separately for the indoor and outdoor seasons, resulting in four categories.

The male Scholar Athletes of the Year in Division I, along with additional individuals given All-Academic status, will be released tomorrow, Thursday, July 29. Those institutions given All-Academic Team status will be named on Monday, August 2 (men) and Wednesday, March 3 (women).

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