Larwin Honored as Third Team Academic All-American
EUGENE - University of Oregon senior and Eugene native Kirsten Larwin was selected Wednesday to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Women’s Cross Country/Track and Field National Third Team.
The South High School product and French major owned a 3.89 cumulative GPA, and was the only Pac-10 female student-athlete honored among the 45 first, second and third team picks. She was also a Pac-10 All-Academic First Team selection in 2003 and 2004 and a Second Team member as a sophomore in 2002.
On the track she competed in the 2004 NCAA Outdoor Championships in mid-June in Austin, Texas and tied for 15th in the pole vault with freshman teammate Emily Enders with a final clearance 12-9 1/2. Overall during the year, she paced the Ducks with a personal best of 13-6 1/4 that placed her fourth in the Pac-10 Championships and also moved her to third all-time for the Ducks behind NCAA champion Becky Holliday (14-8) and All-American Niki McEwen (14-1 1/4). She entered the season with an outdoor personal best of 12-11 3/4, and went on to clear 13 feet in five of her seven outdoor contests, and bettered 12-9 1/2 or better the other two.
Career-wise, Larwin was a four-time top-10 Pac-10 finisher (2004-fourth; 2003-seventh, 12-11 1/2; 2002-sixth, 12-10; 2001-10th, 12-7 1/2) and cleared then-personal bests in all four league trips. She was also an NCAA participant indoors in 2003 (10th, 13-3 1/2). In the recent West Regional Championships she tied for fifth (13-1 3/4) with Enders and earned her NCAA invite as an at-large selection after she ranked ninth nationally at the regular season’s end.
Larwin’s Pole Vault Marks Indoors in 2004
=3.70m (12-1 1/2), 9th, Husky Indoor Preview, 1/17
==3.80m, (12-5 1/2), 2nd, Bodybuilding.com Invitational, 1/31
==3.90m, (12-9 1/2), 8th, Pac-10 Invitational, 2/14
NH, Mt. Pacific Championships, 2/28
==3.89m (12-9), 4th, NCAA Last Chance Qualifier, 3/6
Larwin’s Pole Vault Marks Outdoors in 2004
^4.00m (13-1 1/2), 1st, Oregon Preview, 3/20 (O-PR)
^*4.01m (13-1 3/4), 2nd, Pepsi Invite, 4/10 (O-PR)
^*4.05m (13-3 1/2), 5th, Texas Relays, 4/3 (PR)
^*3.92m (12-10 1/4), 2t, Oregon Twilight, 5/1
^*4.12m (13-6 1/4), 4th, Pac-10 Championships, 5/15 (PR)
^*4.01m (13-1 3/4), 5th-t (lost jumpoff, dnq), West Regional Championships, 5/29
^*3.90m (12-9 1/2),15th-t, NCAA Championships, 6/11
Larwin becomes the 11th Duck woman and 15 Academic All-America honoree (including honorable mentions) since 1983. Other notable Duck Academic All-Americans include former Olympic heptathlete Kelly Blair and NCAA 5K champion Kathy Hayes who were two- and three-time, first team All-Academic selections, respectively.
Duck Women's Track & Field Academic All-Americans
2003 - Kirsten Larwin, Third Team (TF)
2002 - Jenny Kenyon, Third Team (XC/TF)
1998 - Kaarin Knudson, Second Team (XC)
1997 - Christie Engesser, Third Team (XC)
1997 - Kaarin Knudson, Third Team (TF)
1996 - Jenna Carlson, Third Team (XC)
1994 - Kelly Blair, First Team (TF)
1993 - Kelly Blair, First Team (TF)
1988 - Penny Graves, Third Team (TF)
1988 - Karen Rayle, Third Team (TF)
1986 - Kim Roth, Honorable Mention (TF)
1985 - Kathy Hayes, First Team (TF)
1984 - Kathy Hayes, First Team (TF)
1983 - Eryn Forbes, Third (XC)
1983 - Kathy Hayes, First Team (TF)
Three weeks ago, Larwin was selected to the 10-woman regional first team, and redshirt senior Eri Macdonald, a Honolulu, Hawai’i native and Punahou prep graduate, claimed a spot on the 12-woman second team. Team-wise, Oregon’s two recipients led Pac-10 schools and tied for first in the region with BYU, Long Beach, Southern Utah, UC Irvine and Utah.
To be eligible for national and regional honors, student-athletes must be redshirt freshmen or older, be enrolled in their university for at least a year, and sport a 3.20 cumulative grade point average. The vote was based on academic and athletic accomplishments by sports information directors around the nation.
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