June 6, 2008
Center Valley, Pa. - Eight Patriot League track and field/cross country student-athletes have been honored for their academic and athletic performance with a selection to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team for the sport, as selected and announced by the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday.
Bucknell had four representatives on the District II team, while Army had three honorees and Colgate had one on the District I squad.
The Bison placed senior David Mante and junior Kevin Macleod on the District II men's team, while senior Beverly Rogers and junior Gillian Nordquist made the women's squad. Mante makes his second appearance on the squad. He graduated with a 3.71 grade point average in civil engineering, and was also named the Patriot League Indoor Track and Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2007. Macleod also majors in civil engineering, where he holds a GPA above 3.50. He has won the last two 400 hurdles titles at the Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Championship.
Nordquist, the 2007 Patriot League Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year, is majoring in Spanish and has earned multiple nominations to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll. Rogers, a physics major, won the Patriot League title and set a Bucknell school record in the javelin throw. There was only one team on both the men's and women's side in District II.
Army's representation consisted of Kevin Kumlien on the men's side and Katelin Grant and Kim Maxwell on the women's squad. Kumlien was a first-team selection, as the junior management major from Bozeman, Mont. concluded a season where he earned Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors and placed as the top collegiate finisher in the javelin in every event he entered during the year. Grant and Maxwell both earned second-team honors after recently receiving their degrees. Grant graduated with honors with a degree in Environmental Science, while Maxwell earned her degree in Human Biology and will continue her education, having been accepted into medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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Colgate's Jessica Kielty also earned a spot on the District I second team. The junior from Depew, N.Y. carries a 3.9 GPA as an Economics major.
To be eligible for the Academic All-District team, an athlete must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing and be a varsity starter or key reserve and maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 3.20. Kumlien and each of the four Bison honorees will move to the national ballot and be eligible for Academic All-America plaudits after receiving first-team honors. The men's Academic All-America team will be released on Monday, June 23, while the women's will be released on Wednesday, June 25.
The teams also conclude the Academic All-District honors for the 2007-08 campaign. Patriot League teams combined to place 65 student-athletes on the All-District lists, including 42 that received first-team recognition. In addition to the track and field/cross country teams, there were All-District teams for baseball, football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, softball and volleyball, with men's and women's at-large teams that included the remaining Patriot League sports.
