Three America East
student-athletes have been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-District I Women's Track & Field/Cross Country team, as announced by the College Sports Information
Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday, June 5. Albany's Laura Cummings was a first-team selection, while Maine's Lindsay Burlock and Vermont's Carmen Lagala were second-team honorees.
Cummings, a junior with a 3.75 grade-point average in English, won the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2008 America East Outdoor Track & Field Championship and garnered all-conference accolades in both indoor and outdoor track & field. Cummings received all-academic recognition in both indoor & outdoor track & field and was named to the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll in January.
Burlock, a senior with a 3.53 GPA in Food, Science and Nutrition, was a member of the Black Bears' 4x400-relay squad that won titles at both the Indoor and Outdoor Championship meets. An all-conference and all-academic choice in both sports, Burlock is a member of the America East Commissioner's Honor Roll.
Lagala,
a senior with a 3.55 GPA in English, won the 800-meter run at the
America East Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships and
garnered all-conference and all-academic accolades in both sports. A
member of the league's Commissioner's Honor Roll, Lagala was named the
America East Scholar-Athlete for the indoor season and is a nominee for
the conference's Woman of the Year Award.
To be nominated for Academic
All-America recognition, the student-athlete must be a starter or important
reserve with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) for
his/her career. No athlete is eligible until he/she has reached sophomore
athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution (thus, true
freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible transfers are not eligible). In the
cases of transfers, graduate students and junior college graduates, the athlete
must have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution to be
eligible.
CoSIDA selects Academic All-America teams in 12 programs:
football, women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball,
women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's track & field/cross country,
women's track & field/cross country, men's at-large and women's at-large.
First-team All-District
selections are named on the national ballot from which the ESPN The Magazine
Academic All-America teams are chosen.