GREAT NORTHWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Cross Country: Seventy-Four Named To GNAC Academic Team

SPOKANE, Wash.  - A total of 74 student-athletes – 24 men and 50 women - have been named to the 2009 Great Northwest Athletic Conference cross country all-academic team.

Heading up the women's academic squad are two players with perfect 4.00 GPAs – Arielle Rolle of Alaska Anchorage and Krinda Carlson of Saint Martin’s.   Justin Karr of Western Oregon has the best GPA (3.99) among the 23 men selected to the squad. Fifteen of the athletes – 12 women and three men - were all honored for the third time.   Twenty others were repeat selections. To be eligible for the academic team, student-athletes must have a minimum grade point average of 3.20 and be in at least their second year of competition at their university.

2009 GNAC Cross Country Academic All-Conference Team   

Men  
*Seth Clark, Northwest Nazarene (English, Jr., 3.84, Grangeville, ID)
Luke Hetrick, Northwest Nazarene (Engineering Physics, So., 3.40, Caldwell, ID)
**Hank Hetrick, Northwest Nazarene (Engineering Physics, Sr., 3.37, Caldwell, ID)
*Caleb Reynolds, Northwest Nazarene (Christian Ministry, Jr., 3.21, Yakima, WA)

Women
**Ashley Morman, Northwest Nazarene (Business Administration, Sr., 3.97, Bonners Ferry, ID)
Danielle Beesley, Northwest Nazarene (Nursing, So., 3.45, Caldwell, ID)
Megan Swenson, Northwest Nazarene (Business Administration, So., 3.43, Salem, OR)
*Jaclyn Puga, Northwest Nazarene (Biology/Pre-Med, Jr., 3.39, Meridian, ID)
*Elisa Decker, Northwest Nazarene (Pre-Physical Therapy, Jr., 3.31, Vancouver, WA)

*Repeater    **Two-time repeater