Andy Bayer of Indiana, Jordan Hasay of Oregon Top Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Track & Field/Cross Country Teams
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CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® TEAM S ELECTED BY C O SIDA FOR RELEASE: Thursday, June 27 – 12 noon (EDT) Please visit the Capital One Academic All-America® website http://www.capitaloneacademicallamerica.com/ ANDY BAYER OF INDIANA, JORDAN HASAY OF OREGON TOP CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION I TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS TOWSON, Md. – Senior distance runners Andy Bayer of Indiana University and Jordan Hasay of the University of Oregon lead the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I men’s and women’s track and field/cross country teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Bayer and Hasay have been chosen as the winners of the Capital One Academic All-America® of the Year award for the Division I Men’s and Women’s track and field and cross country programs, respectively. Bayer is a biology major who graduated this spring from Indiana University with a 3.60 G.P.A. A native of Leo, Ind., Bayer is the only Hoosiers’ male track and field student-athlete to earn Capital One Division I Academic All-America® honors. He was a second team Capital One Academic All-America® selection in 2011 and 2012. The 2012 NCAA outdoor 1,500 meter champion, Bayer finished his career as an 11-time All-American including an eighth place finish in the 1,500 at the 2013 national meet. He was a two-time NCAA runner- up, and also earned indoor All-America honors in the distance medley relay and 3,000 meters. Bayer was a six-time Big Ten champion and became the third runner in Big Ten history to win both the 1,500 and 5,000 meter titles at the 2013 Big Ten Outdoor Championships. He scored 26 points to lead Indiana to the 2012 Big Ten Indoor Track and Field championship. During his career, Bayer earned Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors and was also a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar. Hasay, a senior middle distance runner with a 3.87 G.P.A. majoring in business administration, was also named as the Capital One Academic All-America® of the Year in 2011. In 2011, she became the first person in the history of the Academic All-America® program to win the national honor as a sophomore. A native of Arroyo Grande, Cal., she is the most decorated runner in school history with 18 combined All- America awards, two national titles and four Pac-12 championships. As a senior, she led Oregon to NCAA championships in both cross country and indoor track, along with the Pac-12 outdoor title. The cross country championship was Oregon’s first national title since 1987. Individually, she placed third at the 2012 NCAA Cross Country championship meet. At the 2013 NCAA Indoor National Championships, she finished second in the 3,000 meters and fourth in the 5,000 meters to score 13 points. At the 2013 NCAA Outdoor championship, Hasay finished third in the 5,000. – more – Bayer, Hasay Top Academic All-America® Division I Track/Cross Country Team Page 2 As a senior, Hasay set school records in both the 3,000 (8:57.46) and 5,000 (15:40.30) during the indoor season, while setting the Oregon and Pac-12 outdoor records in the 10,000 (32:06.64). A three-time Capital One Academic All-America® honoree, Hasay is a two-time NCAA champion, winning both the mile and the 3,000 meters at the 2011 NCAA Indoor National Championships. She was the 2011 United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Indoor Track Athlete of the Year and a semifinalist for the Bowerman Award, the highest accolade given to the year's best student-athlete in collegiate track and field. A three-time Pac-12 Athlete of the Year for the cross country program, she was also the 2012 Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for cross country. She is also the first woman in Oregon history to win four cross country All-America awards from the USTFCCCA. Capital One Division I Academic All-America® Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country First Team Bjorn Barrefors of Nebraska and Matt Carey of Rice are the only repeat selections on the Capital One Academic All-America® Division I men’s track and field first team. Elliot Krause of Wisconsin, Alexander Ziegler of Virginia Tech and Bayer were second team selections in 2012, while Nick Happe of Arizona State, Quentin Mege of Minnesota and Edgar Rivera-Morales of the Arizona were on the third team a year ago. Barrefors is a four-time Academic All-America® honoree, He earned first team honors in 2011 and 2012, and third team notice in 2010. Bayer, Carey and Krause are three-time Academic All-America® picks. Rounding out the Capital One Academic All-America® Division I men’s track and field first team are Peter Callahan of Princeton, Ben DeJarnette of Oregon, Jeremy Drenckhahn of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Christopher Galvin of the U.S. Naval Academy, Stephen Mackell of Dayton, Jeremy Taiwo of Washington and David Triassi of Florida. Barrefors, a native of Stockholm, Sweden, had a 3.75 G.P.A. majoring in computer science and a mathematics/physics minor. The NCAA Elite 88 Academic Award winner at the 2010 indoor track and field championships, he was a member of two Big Ten Conference championship teams. He is a six-time All-American and a two-time conference champion in the decathlon (2012) and heptathlon (2011). Barrefors, who was selected as Nebraska’s 2012-13 Male Student-Athlete of the Year, broke the Cornhuskers’ records in both the heptathlon and decathlon during his career. He received the 2012-13 Big Ten’s Medal of Honor, was a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Big Ten all-academic selection. An M.B.A. graduate student with a 3.94 G.P.A., Carey graduated from Rice with a 4.24 G.P.A. in economics. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Carey was the 2011 Conference USA Scholar Athlete of the Year. He placed 11th in the 10,000 meters at the conference outdoor track and field meet, 31st at the C- USA cross country championships and 35th at the NCAA South Central cross country regional in 2012. Carey was a four-time recipient of the C-USA Academic Medal. An All-American in both cross country and track for Wisconsin, Krause has a 3.72 G.P.A. with a double major in mathematics and philosophy. The Appleton, Wis., native helped the Badgers win four Big Ten Conference cross country championships as well as four NCAA Great Lakes Regional titles. A three-time first team All-Big Ten honoree, he earned first team All-Great Lakes Region honors twice. As a senior, he led the Badgers to their fifth national title with an All-America effort at the NCAA Cross Country championship. On the track, Krause contributed to UW's title at the 2012 Big Ten Outdoor Meet with a runner-up finish in the 10,000 meters. He earned All-America honors on the track with his sixth place finish in the 10,000 at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Meet. Krause earned the Big Ten Medal of Honor in 2013 and was a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and seven-time Academic All-Big Ten selection. – more – Bayer, Hasay Top Academic All-America® Division I Track/Cross Country Team Page 3 Ziegler is an M.B.A. graduate student with a 3.60 G.P.A., after graduating from Virginia Tech with a 3.53 G.P.A. in management. The Dischingen, Germany native competed in only the indoor season and won both the 2013 NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference weight throw championships. A seven-time NCAA All-American, he claimed back-to-back NCAA hammer throw titles in 2011 and 2012. Ziegler is one of three hammer throwers in the last 25 years to finish in the top three at the national meet in each year of their eligibility. He was the 2013 ACC Men’s Indoor Track and Field Scholar Athlete of the Year and a six-time ACC All-Academic team selection. Ziegler was the 2011 United States Track and Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Outdoor Field Scholar Athlete of the Year. The Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year in both cross country and track, Happe recorded a perfect 4.00 G.P.A. in accountancy and is a member of the Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State. The St. Charles, Mo. native won the Pac-12 outdoor title in the 5,000 meters and also scored in the 1,500. Happe, who earned NCAA All-American honors in the indoor 3,000 meters, was the first individual in school history to post top-five indoor marks in the mile, 3K and 5K. He was a second team All-Pac 12 and All-West Region cross country performer. Happe has been accepted into the prestigious M.B.A. program at the Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business. A native of Chelles, France, Mege is a graduate student at Minnesota with a 3.78 G.P.A. after graduating with a 3.92 G.P.A. in mechanical engineering. He was the Big Ten Conference hammer throw champion in 2011 and 2012, and was runner-up in the event in the 2013 outdoor season despite competing with a broken hand. Mege earned second team All-America honors for the Gophers in the hammer throw at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.