Track and Field Teams Combine for 14 Indoor All-Academic Honors
EUGENE ? The University of Oregon track and field teams claimed 14 men’s and women’s honorees on the annual Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Track and Field All-Academic team announced this week.
Per the award’s requirements, nine Oregon women and five men sported a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better, were at least a sophomore academically, completed one full academic year at UO, and competed in at least 50 percent of the indoor season.
Duck Women’s Honorees
Emily Enders 3.44 Junior Pole Vault Snohomish, WA / Snohomish HS
Kasey Harwood 3.67 Sophomore Hurdles Polson, MT / Polson HS
Brittany Hinchcliffe 3.03 RS-Senior Throws Olympia, WA / Capital HS
Roslyn Lundeen 3.79 RS-Senior Throws Victoria, BC / Claremont HS
Kalindra McFadden 3.68 RS-Freshman Pentathlon Bozeman, MT / Bozeman HS
Hannah Moore 3.72 RS-Senior Pole Vault Reno, NV / Reno HS
Sarah Pearson 3.90 RS-Freshman Distance Eugene, OR / South HS
Sara Schaaf 3.42 RS-Senior Middle Distance Klamath Falls, OR / Union HS
Irie Searcy 3.24 RS-Sophomore Sprints Portland, OR / Lincoln HS
Duck Men’s Honorees
Michael McGrath 3.56 RS-Sophomore Middle Distance Portland, OR / Lincoln HS
David Moore 3.20 RS-Junior Pole Vault Orinda, CA / Miramonte HS
Matt Scherer 3.59 Senior Sprints Sumner, IL / Redhill HS
Christopher Winter 3.20 RS-Freshman Distance North Vancouver, BC / Handsworth HS
Andy Young 3.81 RS-Senior Heptathlon Newburg, OR / Newburg HS
Among UO’s women’s honorees, Schaaf and Searcy were All-Americans on the track in the 2006 NCAA Indoor Championships in the distance medley relay (seventh, 11:18.89), while McFadden was an NCAA provisional qualifier with her pentathlon school record (3,929). Moore was also a past NCAA indoor qualifier in 2004 (13th, 12-11 1/2) after she jumped a personal best (13-5) in the UW Last Chance Meet the week before in Seattle.
For the men, McGrath was an NCAA qualifier indoors in ’06 in the mile after he ran a sub-4:00 clocking indoors (3:59.25) that ranks him second all-time for UO. Scherer was an All-American in the 400 meters and 4x400-meter relay in ’05, and Young was an NCAA indoor provisional qualifier in the heptathlon in 2004 with a personal best (5,385) that ranks him fifth all-time for UO.
Several Ducks will be up for additional academic honors during the outdoor season, and regional all-academic honors are announced in late May, Pac-10 all-academic honors are released in early June, and national all-academic honors follow in mid-June.
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