Men's Track and Field Fills Top Spot on National All-Academic List
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The Centennial Conference-champion men's track and field team from Haverford posted the nation's best GPA among their D-III peers and place five individuals on the All-Academic list.
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7/16/08 -- The men’s track and field team from Haverford College not only got the job done on the track this past spring—capturing the 2008 Centennial Conference championship title—but they were also top performers in the classroom as well.
The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) has released their 2008 Scholar Teams list with the Fords’ men’s program filling the top spot in the country of the 56 Division III teams earning All-Academic team honors. The Haverford men posted a nations-best 3.461 cumulative grade-point average while runner-up Carnegie-Mellon University followed with a 3.400.
The Fords were one of five Centennial Conference squads that appeared on the scholar teams list, the highest number of representatives from any one conference in the country.
Five Haverford athletes from the men’s team picked up USTFCCCA All-Academic individual honors led by D-III All-Americans Joe Awantang (Shot put; Sr., Dulles, Va./Portsmouth Abbey, R.I.) and Chaz Thomas (triple jump; Jr., Huntington, N.Y./Wyandanch Memorial). Joining the pair on the individual all-academic list were junior Taylor Burmeister (Concord, Mass./Concord-Carlisle), senior Ian Ramsey-North (Narberth, Pa./Friends Central), and freshman Elias Tousley (Kensington, Md./Bethesda-Chevy Chase).
To qualify as a USTFCCCA All-Academic Scholar Team a program must achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.000.