2013-14 TFXC Post-Season Awards & Summary

Post date: Aug 13, 2014 8:00:55 PM

All-Academic Honors were announced by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association for the Track & Field seasons. Teams with a combined cumulative GPA of at least 3.10 were eligible along with individual student-athletes who ranked among the National Top-35 in their event(s) and carried a cumulative GPA of at least 3.30.

For the fourth year in a row and sixth time in the last seven years, CNU's Women's Track & Field Team earned the All-Academic Team recognition, joining the Women's Cross Country Team's inclusion last fall. Four individuals made the cut: Jessica McClelland (Stafford, VA), Enuma Ezenwa (Herndon, VA), and Jennifer Westerholm (Stafford, VA) all earned their second All-Academic Awards and Leah Richardson (Dinwiddie, VA) claimed her first honor. All four competed at the Div. III Outdoor Track & Field Championships this spring. McClelland also earned Academic All-State Team honors from the Virginia Sports Information Direcotrs (VaSID).

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Final stats on the year for CNU TFXC:

• National Champion #66 – Richard Roethel (Decathlon)

• All-American #493 – Dominique Torres (Outdoor Triple Jump – Runner-up; Indoor 7th Place)

• Men's Team finished 14th at the Outdoor National Championships

• 10 NCAA National Championships Entries

• 19 NCAA Div. III Top-50 Performers

• 5 National All-Academic Team Members plus team honors for Women’s XC and T&F

• 2 Indoor S/SE Region Field Athletes of the Year (Roethel and Enuma Ezenwa)

• 3 S/SE Region #1 Rankings (Men’s Indoor, Men’s & Women’s Outdoor - Women #2 Indoors)

• 3 Women's Conference Titles, 3 Men's Runner-Up Finishes

• 21 Conference Records

• 4 Conference Athletes of the Year

• 24 Conference Champions

• 69 All-Conference Honors (Top 16 for XC, Top 2 for T&F)

• 9 School Records

• 80 New CNU All-Time Performance List Entries (127 changes during the year)

• 17 Fall Semester & 16 Spring Semester Dean's List Members

• 40 Team Members with at least a 3.0 GPA Fall Semester (2 at 4.0); 47 Spring Semester (4 at 4.0)