Track's Brockman Earns Academic All-America Honors
6/22/2006 12:00:00 AM | Track & Field
June 22, 2006
WACO, Texas - Baylor junior Brittany Brockman (Houston, Texas) was named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-America third team, the College Sports Information Directors of America announced Thursday.
Brockman, who is Baylor's first track Academic All-America honoree since Kerry O'Bric in 2001, is a health science studies major and was nominated with a 3.86 grade point average. This year, she captured the NCAA South Central Regional individual cross country title, earned All-Big 12 honors by placing fourth overall at the conference meet and helped lead the Bears to a 15th-place finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships.
While Brockman's track season was cut short due to injury, she was an All-American in the 10,000 meters and the Big 12 runner-up in the event in 2005. She also earned All-Big 12 honors indoors in the 3,000 and 5,000 meters and has earned All-Big 12 honors in cross country each of her first three seasons.
Brockman earned Academic All-District VI honors for the second straight year this year and has been named to the Big 12 cross country and track & field All-Academic teams each of the last two years. She has also been named to the Big 12 Commissioner's honor roll all six semesters at Baylor.
The Academic All-America Teams program honors 816 male and female student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA (the College Sports Information Directors of America), a 2,000 member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
To be eligible, a student-athletes must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the programs inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.
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