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DIII Track & Field Scholar Teams of the Year & AllAcademic Teams Announced
By Kyle Terwillegar, USTFCCCA
July 17, 2015
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NEW ORLEANS – Scholar Team of the Year and AllAcademic Team honors for the 201415 NCAA Division III Track & Field season were announced Friday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). For the first time in the history of the award, which dates back to 2007, a single school – UWLa Crosse – has swept both the men’s and women’s Scholar Team awards for the indoor and outdoor season PDF Release As the highestplacing teams with at least a 3.10 cumulative team grade point average at this season’s indoor and/or outdoor NCAA Championships, UWLa Crosse stood out among 170 women’s teams and 99 men’s programs that combined academic and athletic achievement to earn AllAcademic Team honors this season. The full list of AllAcademic teams can be found below. UWLa Crosse’s men and women were both dominant national team champions at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, while the women were also national champions indoors. The UWL men finished as national runnersup during the winter. All the while, the Eagle women maintained a cumulative team GPA of 3.40 while the men earned a cumulative GPA of 3.16.
MEN’S SCHOLAR TEAM AWARD HISTORY Indoor Track & Field 2015: UWLa Crosse 2014: UWLa Crosse 2013: UWLa Crosse 2012: UWEau Claire 2011: UWLa Crosse 2010: UWLa Crosse 2009: Whitworth 2008: UWLa Crosse 2007: Tufts Outdoor Track & Field 2015: UWLa Crosse 2014: UWLa Crosse 2013: UWLa Crosse 2012: UWEau Claire 2011: UWLa Crosse 2010: Salisbury 2009: Whitworth 2008: Whitworth 2007: UW Platteville
WOMEN’S SCHOLAR TEAM AWARD HISTORY Indoor Track & Field 2015: UWLa Crosse
2014: UWOshkosh 2013: UWOshkosh 2012: Wartburg 2011: UWOshkosh 2010: Wartburg 2009: Wartburg 2008: Illinois Wesleyan 2007: UW La Crosse Outdoor Track & Field 2015: UWLa Crosse 2014: Wartburg 2013: Wartburg 2012: Wartburg 2011: UWOshkosh 2010: Illinois Wesleyan 2009: Wartburg 2008: Illinois Wesleyan 2007: UWOshkosh
Both teams led their respective genders in USTFCCCA AllAcademic Individual honorees. Sixteen UWL men earned the individual honor, along with 15 women. The women were led by indoor/outdoor field Scholar Athlete of the Year Bria Halama. Halama won a pair of triple jump national titles and scored in the 400 outdoors to spearhead the Eagles’ women’s national title sweep. The UWL women scored 73 points outdoors to finish well ahead of runnerup UW Eau Claire with 43, and posted a nationbest 55 indoors to defeat rival UWOshkosh by a much closer sixpoint margin.
The UWL men scored 71 points outdoors to claim a decisive victory over runnerup UWEau Claire with 46, avenging their twopoint indoor loss at the hands of UWEC, 6260.
All Academic Teams Saint Vincent Women, Amherst Men Earn Top Team GPAs The USTFCCCA also announced Friday the 2015 Division III AllAcademic Track & Field teams. A total of 170 women’s teams and 99 men’s teams earned the
TOP 5 MEN’S TEAMS (CUMULATIVE GPA)
distinction as a result of earning a cumulative team GPA of 3.10 or higher. Saint Vincent’s women led all NCAA DIII teams with a 3.65 cumulative team GPA, narrowly edging out Simpson (Iowa) at 3.64, Macalester at 3.63 and the 3.62 duo of Berry and Case Western Reserve. Amherst topped the list on the men’s side with a cumulative 3.53 mark. Goucher was second at 3.53, followed by Middlebury at 3.50 and both Washington (Mo.)
Amherst Goucher Middlebury Washington (Mo.) Case Western Reserve
TOP 5 WOMEN’S TEAMS(CUMULATIVE GPA)
and Case Western Reserve at 3.48. The MIAC was the lone Division III conference to reach doubledigits in terms of team representation with 10 women, just ahead of the NESCAC with nine and the Centennial with eight. On the men’s side, the NESCAC topped the list with nine member institutions earning AllAcademic Team nods, followed by the the MIAC with eight and the SCIAC with seven.
Saint Vincent Simpson (Iowa) Macalester Berry Case Western Reserve
The full list of AllAcademic Teams is listed below in alphabetical order by team.
2015 USTFCCCA AllAcademic Teams – NCAA Division III Track & Field MEN’S TEAMS
School Alvernia
3.55 3.53 3.50 3.48 3.48
WOMEN’S TEAMS
GPA 3.21
School Adrian
GPA 3.22
3.65 3.64 3.63 3.62 3.62
Amherst Augustana (Ill.) Babson Beloit Berry Bethel (Minn.) Cal Lutheran Caltech Calvin Carleton Carnegie Mellon Carroll (Wis.) Case Western Reserve Chicago ClaremontMuddScripps Coast Guard Colby Colorado College Concordia Moorhead Connecticut College Dickinson Dubuque Elizabethtown Emory Geneva Goucher Grinnell Gustavus Adolphus Hamilton Haverford Heidelberg Hendrix Hope Illinois College Illinois Wesleyan Ithaca John Carroll Johns Hopkins Keene State Kenyon La Verne Lewis & Clark Linfield Luther Macalester Messiah Middlebury Misericordia
3.55 3.20 3.17 3.29 3.15 3.26 3.28 3.40 3.27 3.40 3.32 3.17 3.48 3.42 3.24 3.13 3.39 3.42 3.27 3.26 3.26 3.11 3.15 3.41 3.24 3.53 3.38 3.32 3.21 3.45 3.19 3.11 3.15 3.21 3.17 3.37 3.25 3.29 3.17 3.32 3.14 3.33 3.14 3.23 3.46 3.30 3.50 3.39
Albion Alvernia Amherst Anderson (Ind.) Augsburg Augustana (Ill.) Aurora Babson Beloit Berry Bethel (Minn.) Bluffton Bridgewater (Va.) Brockport Bryn Mawr Cal Lutheran Caltech Calvin Carleton Carnegie Mellon Carroll (Wis.) Carthage Case Western Reserve Central (Iowa) Chatham Chicago Christopher Newport ClaremontMuddScripps Coe Colby Colorado College Concordia Moorhead Concordia Wisconsin Connecticut College Cornell College CUA Denison DePauw Dickinson Dubuque Eastern Mennonite Elizabethtown Elmhurst Emory Franklin Fredonia Frostburg State Geneva
3.38 3.43 3.30 3.46 3.25 3.25 3.18 3.36 3.57 3.62 3.46 3.33 3.37 3.14 3.46 3.34 3.50 3.37 3.59 3.47 3.32 3.34 3.62 3.26 3.44 3.50 3.21 3.43 3.25 3.45 3.45 3.51 3.45 3.49 3.30 3.39 3.30 3.28 3.16 3.41 3.32 3.52 3.38 3.55 3.27 3.30 3.15 3.50
Muhlenberg Nebraska Wesleyan North Central (Ill.) Oberlin Occidental Olivet Otterbein Penn State Behrend PomonaPitzer Principia Redlands Rhodes RIT Rochester (N.Y.) Rowan RPI Saint John Fisher Saint John’s (Minn.) Saint Vincent Simpson (Iowa) Springfield (Mass.) St. Lawrence St. Norbert St. Olaf St. Scholastica St. Thomas (Minn.) Stevens Stockton SUNY Geneseo Swarthmore Trinity (Conn.) Tufts Univ. of the South UWLa Crosse UWStout Vassar Virginia Wesleyan Wabash Wartburg Washington (Mo.) Washington and Lee Waynesburg Wesleyan (Conn.) Westfield State Wheaton (Ill.) Whitworth Willamette Williams
3.23 3.18 3.11 3.21 3.22 3.22 3.13 3.11 3.45 3.41 3.15 3.17 3.11 3.36 3.10 3.31 3.24 3.23 3.15 3.15 3.18 3.22 3.14 3.32 3.38 3.12 3.41 3.36 3.13 3.44 3.15 3.35 3.26 3.16 3.22 3.42 3.15 3.17 3.24 3.48 3.42 3.13 3.13 3.25 3.37 3.31 3.27 3.36
Gettysburg Goucher Greenville Grinnell Grove City Guilford Gustavus Adolphus GwyneddMercy Hamilton Hanover Haverford Heidelberg Hendrix Hood Hope Husson Illinois College Ithaca John Carroll Johns Hopkins Keene State Kenyon La Verne Lawrence Lebanon Valley Lewis & Clark Linfield Loras Luther Macalester Mary Washington McDaniel Messiah Middlebury Millikin Minnesota Morris Misericordia Moravian Muhlenberg Nazareth Nebraska Wesleyan North Central (Ill.) North Park Oberlin Occidental Ohio Northern Ohio Wesleyan Olivet
3.37 3.34 3.34 3.61 3.21 3.28 3.54 3.43 3.42 3.26 3.51 3.40 3.38 3.16 3.47 3.55 3.28 3.46 3.39 3.39 3.46 3.44 3.22 3.60 3.43 3.44 3.33 3.46 3.28 3.63 3.13 3.31 3.29 3.55 3.21 3.27 3.51 3.23 3.38 3.54 3.51 3.30 3.33 3.41 3.38 3.24 3.25 3.27
Wooster WPI
3.10 3.36
Otterbein Pacific (Ore.) Penn State Behrend PomonaPitzer Principia Puget Sound Ramapo Redlands Rhodes RIT Roanoke Rochester (N.Y.) Rowan RPI Sage Colleges Saint John Fisher Saint Vincent Salisbury Salve Regina Shenandoah Simpson (Iowa) Smith Southern Maine Springfield (Mass.) St. Benedict St. Catherine (Minn.) St. Lawrence St. Norbert St. Olaf St. Scholastica St. Thomas (Minn.) Stevens Stockton SUNY Geneseo SUNY Oneonta SUNY Plattsburgh Susquehanna Swarthmore TCNJ Texas Lutheran Thiel Transylvania Trinity (Conn.) Trinity (Texas) Tufts UC Santa Cruz Univ. of the South UWEau Claire
3.36 3.44 3.41 3.60 3.59 3.31 3.12 3.58 3.41 3.45 3.11 3.33 3.11 3.22 3.39 3.39 3.65 3.20 3.34 3.27 3.64 3.38 3.17 3.51 3.50 3.56 3.28 3.40 3.30 3.60 3.48 3.37 3.57 3.25 3.24 3.33 3.26 3.58 3.42 3.31 3.54 3.59 3.40 3.23 3.37 3.12 3.36 3.42
UWLa Crosse UWOshkosh UWPlatteville UWStevens Point UWStout UWWhitewater Vassar Virginia Wesleyan Wartburg Washington (Mo.) Washington and Lee Waynesburg Webster Wellesley Wesleyan (Conn.) Westfield State Wheaton (Ill.) Whitworth Willamette Williams Wilmington (Ohio) Wittenberg Wooster Worcester State WPI
3.40 3.11 3.17 3.39 3.49 3.13 3.39 3.21 3.42 3.53 3.44 3.48 3.39 3.47 3.52 3.35 3.52 3.60 3.38 3.51 3.17 3.20 3.24 3.30 3.40
By Kyle Terwillegar, USTFCCCA
July 17, 2015
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NEW ORLEANS – Scholar Team of the Year and AllAcademic Team honors for the 201415 NCAA Division III Track & Field season were announced Friday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). For the first time in the history of the award, which dates back to 2007, a single school – UWLa Crosse – has swept both the men’s and women’s Scholar Team awards for the indoor and outdoor season PDF Release As the highestplacing teams with at least a 3.10 cumulative team grade point average at this season’s indoor and/or outdoor NCAA Championships, UWLa Crosse stood out among 170 women’s teams and 99 men’s programs that combined academic and athletic achievement to earn AllAcademic Team honors this season. The full list of AllAcademic teams can be found below. UWLa Crosse’s men and women were both dominant national team champions at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, while the women were also national champions indoors. The UWL men finished as national runnersup during the winter. All the while, the Eagle women maintained a cumulative team GPA of 3.40 while the men earned a cumulative GPA of 3.16.
MEN’S SCHOLAR TEAM AWARD HISTORY Indoor Track & Field 2015: UWLa Crosse 2014: UWLa Crosse 2013: UWLa Crosse 2012: UWEau Claire 2011: UWLa Crosse 2010: UWLa Crosse 2009: Whitworth 2008: UWLa Crosse 2007: Tufts Outdoor Track & Field 2015: UWLa Crosse 2014: UWLa Crosse 2013: UWLa Crosse 2012: UWEau Claire 2011: UWLa Crosse 2010: Salisbury 2009: Whitworth 2008: Whitworth 2007: UW Platteville
WOMEN’S SCHOLAR TEAM AWARD HISTORY Indoor Track & Field 2015: UWLa Crosse
2014: UWOshkosh 2013: UWOshkosh 2012: Wartburg 2011: UWOshkosh 2010: Wartburg 2009: Wartburg 2008: Illinois Wesleyan 2007: UW La Crosse Outdoor Track & Field 2015: UWLa Crosse 2014: Wartburg 2013: Wartburg 2012: Wartburg 2011: UWOshkosh 2010: Illinois Wesleyan 2009: Wartburg 2008: Illinois Wesleyan 2007: UWOshkosh
Both teams led their respective genders in USTFCCCA AllAcademic Individual honorees. Sixteen UWL men earned the individual honor, along with 15 women. The women were led by indoor/outdoor field Scholar Athlete of the Year Bria Halama. Halama won a pair of triple jump national titles and scored in the 400 outdoors to spearhead the Eagles’ women’s national title sweep. The UWL women scored 73 points outdoors to finish well ahead of runnerup UW Eau Claire with 43, and posted a nationbest 55 indoors to defeat rival UWOshkosh by a much closer sixpoint margin.
The UWL men scored 71 points outdoors to claim a decisive victory over runnerup UWEau Claire with 46, avenging their twopoint indoor loss at the hands of UWEC, 6260.
All Academic Teams Saint Vincent Women, Amherst Men Earn Top Team GPAs The USTFCCCA also announced Friday the 2015 Division III AllAcademic Track & Field teams. A total of 170 women’s teams and 99 men’s teams earned the
TOP 5 MEN’S TEAMS (CUMULATIVE GPA)
distinction as a result of earning a cumulative team GPA of 3.10 or higher. Saint Vincent’s women led all NCAA DIII teams with a 3.65 cumulative team GPA, narrowly edging out Simpson (Iowa) at 3.64, Macalester at 3.63 and the 3.62 duo of Berry and Case Western Reserve. Amherst topped the list on the men’s side with a cumulative 3.53 mark. Goucher was second at 3.53, followed by Middlebury at 3.50 and both Washington (Mo.)
Amherst Goucher Middlebury Washington (Mo.) Case Western Reserve
TOP 5 WOMEN’S TEAMS(CUMULATIVE GPA)
and Case Western Reserve at 3.48. The MIAC was the lone Division III conference to reach doubledigits in terms of team representation with 10 women, just ahead of the NESCAC with nine and the Centennial with eight. On the men’s side, the NESCAC topped the list with nine member institutions earning AllAcademic Team nods, followed by the the MIAC with eight and the SCIAC with seven.
Saint Vincent Simpson (Iowa) Macalester Berry Case Western Reserve
The full list of AllAcademic Teams is listed below in alphabetical order by team.
2015 USTFCCCA AllAcademic Teams – NCAA Division III Track & Field MEN’S TEAMS
School Alvernia
3.55 3.53 3.50 3.48 3.48
WOMEN’S TEAMS
GPA 3.21
School Adrian
GPA 3.22
3.65 3.64 3.63 3.62 3.62
Amherst Augustana (Ill.) Babson Beloit Berry Bethel (Minn.) Cal Lutheran Caltech Calvin Carleton Carnegie Mellon Carroll (Wis.) Case Western Reserve Chicago ClaremontMuddScripps Coast Guard Colby Colorado College Concordia Moorhead Connecticut College Dickinson Dubuque Elizabethtown Emory Geneva Goucher Grinnell Gustavus Adolphus Hamilton Haverford Heidelberg Hendrix Hope Illinois College Illinois Wesleyan Ithaca John Carroll Johns Hopkins Keene State Kenyon La Verne Lewis & Clark Linfield Luther Macalester Messiah Middlebury Misericordia
3.55 3.20 3.17 3.29 3.15 3.26 3.28 3.40 3.27 3.40 3.32 3.17 3.48 3.42 3.24 3.13 3.39 3.42 3.27 3.26 3.26 3.11 3.15 3.41 3.24 3.53 3.38 3.32 3.21 3.45 3.19 3.11 3.15 3.21 3.17 3.37 3.25 3.29 3.17 3.32 3.14 3.33 3.14 3.23 3.46 3.30 3.50 3.39
Albion Alvernia Amherst Anderson (Ind.) Augsburg Augustana (Ill.) Aurora Babson Beloit Berry Bethel (Minn.) Bluffton Bridgewater (Va.) Brockport Bryn Mawr Cal Lutheran Caltech Calvin Carleton Carnegie Mellon Carroll (Wis.) Carthage Case Western Reserve Central (Iowa) Chatham Chicago Christopher Newport ClaremontMuddScripps Coe Colby Colorado College Concordia Moorhead Concordia Wisconsin Connecticut College Cornell College CUA Denison DePauw Dickinson Dubuque Eastern Mennonite Elizabethtown Elmhurst Emory Franklin Fredonia Frostburg State Geneva
3.38 3.43 3.30 3.46 3.25 3.25 3.18 3.36 3.57 3.62 3.46 3.33 3.37 3.14 3.46 3.34 3.50 3.37 3.59 3.47 3.32 3.34 3.62 3.26 3.44 3.50 3.21 3.43 3.25 3.45 3.45 3.51 3.45 3.49 3.30 3.39 3.30 3.28 3.16 3.41 3.32 3.52 3.38 3.55 3.27 3.30 3.15 3.50
Muhlenberg Nebraska Wesleyan North Central (Ill.) Oberlin Occidental Olivet Otterbein Penn State Behrend PomonaPitzer Principia Redlands Rhodes RIT Rochester (N.Y.) Rowan RPI Saint John Fisher Saint John’s (Minn.) Saint Vincent Simpson (Iowa) Springfield (Mass.) St. Lawrence St. Norbert St. Olaf St. Scholastica St. Thomas (Minn.) Stevens Stockton SUNY Geneseo Swarthmore Trinity (Conn.) Tufts Univ. of the South UWLa Crosse UWStout Vassar Virginia Wesleyan Wabash Wartburg Washington (Mo.) Washington and Lee Waynesburg Wesleyan (Conn.) Westfield State Wheaton (Ill.) Whitworth Willamette Williams
3.23 3.18 3.11 3.21 3.22 3.22 3.13 3.11 3.45 3.41 3.15 3.17 3.11 3.36 3.10 3.31 3.24 3.23 3.15 3.15 3.18 3.22 3.14 3.32 3.38 3.12 3.41 3.36 3.13 3.44 3.15 3.35 3.26 3.16 3.22 3.42 3.15 3.17 3.24 3.48 3.42 3.13 3.13 3.25 3.37 3.31 3.27 3.36
Gettysburg Goucher Greenville Grinnell Grove City Guilford Gustavus Adolphus GwyneddMercy Hamilton Hanover Haverford Heidelberg Hendrix Hood Hope Husson Illinois College Ithaca John Carroll Johns Hopkins Keene State Kenyon La Verne Lawrence Lebanon Valley Lewis & Clark Linfield Loras Luther Macalester Mary Washington McDaniel Messiah Middlebury Millikin Minnesota Morris Misericordia Moravian Muhlenberg Nazareth Nebraska Wesleyan North Central (Ill.) North Park Oberlin Occidental Ohio Northern Ohio Wesleyan Olivet
3.37 3.34 3.34 3.61 3.21 3.28 3.54 3.43 3.42 3.26 3.51 3.40 3.38 3.16 3.47 3.55 3.28 3.46 3.39 3.39 3.46 3.44 3.22 3.60 3.43 3.44 3.33 3.46 3.28 3.63 3.13 3.31 3.29 3.55 3.21 3.27 3.51 3.23 3.38 3.54 3.51 3.30 3.33 3.41 3.38 3.24 3.25 3.27
Wooster WPI
3.10 3.36
Otterbein Pacific (Ore.) Penn State Behrend PomonaPitzer Principia Puget Sound Ramapo Redlands Rhodes RIT Roanoke Rochester (N.Y.) Rowan RPI Sage Colleges Saint John Fisher Saint Vincent Salisbury Salve Regina Shenandoah Simpson (Iowa) Smith Southern Maine Springfield (Mass.) St. Benedict St. Catherine (Minn.) St. Lawrence St. Norbert St. Olaf St. Scholastica St. Thomas (Minn.) Stevens Stockton SUNY Geneseo SUNY Oneonta SUNY Plattsburgh Susquehanna Swarthmore TCNJ Texas Lutheran Thiel Transylvania Trinity (Conn.) Trinity (Texas) Tufts UC Santa Cruz Univ. of the South UWEau Claire
3.36 3.44 3.41 3.60 3.59 3.31 3.12 3.58 3.41 3.45 3.11 3.33 3.11 3.22 3.39 3.39 3.65 3.20 3.34 3.27 3.64 3.38 3.17 3.51 3.50 3.56 3.28 3.40 3.30 3.60 3.48 3.37 3.57 3.25 3.24 3.33 3.26 3.58 3.42 3.31 3.54 3.59 3.40 3.23 3.37 3.12 3.36 3.42
UWLa Crosse UWOshkosh UWPlatteville UWStevens Point UWStout UWWhitewater Vassar Virginia Wesleyan Wartburg Washington (Mo.) Washington and Lee Waynesburg Webster Wellesley Wesleyan (Conn.) Westfield State Wheaton (Ill.) Whitworth Willamette Williams Wilmington (Ohio) Wittenberg Wooster Worcester State WPI
3.40 3.11 3.17 3.39 3.49 3.13 3.39 3.21 3.42 3.53 3.44 3.48 3.39 3.47 3.52 3.35 3.52 3.60 3.38 3.51 3.17 3.20 3.24 3.30 3.40
