Duck Lacrosse Foursome Earns Academic All-Conference Honors
WOODLAND, Calif. -- University of Oregon lacrosse student-athletes Alicia Burkhart, Cara
Mead, Anna Poponyak and Ilsa van den Berg have been recognized as
all-MPSF scholar athletes, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation officials
announced Monday.
Burkhart became a three-time winner of the award as the senior from Eldersburg, Md., carries a 3.21 grade point average in Human Physiology.
Poponyak, a graduating senior goalie from Encinitas, Calif., has a 3.48 GPA and will be graduating with a double major in Economics and Planning, Public Policy and Management. She is a four-time winner of this distinction.
Mead, a defender, is following up her Sports Business degree from UO with a Masters in Business Administration and has a 3.40 cumulative GPA in grad school. The Baltimore native also earned the honor in 2006 and '08.
Van den Berg, a senior from Reisterstown, Md., also earned all-academic honors from the league in 2008. She has a 3.03 GPA in business administration.
All of the players were key starters in 2009, leading the Ducks to a 12-5 finish and the semifinals of the MPSF tournament.
All told, 59 women's lacrosse student-athletes earned academic all-conference status based on the following criteria:
1. 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average.
2. Student-athlete must be at least a sophomore academically.
3. Student-athlete must have completed one full academic year at the institution prior to the season for which the award is being received.
4. Student-athlete must have competed in fifty percent or more of the institution’s competition in his or her respective sport.
