MILES BATTY of BYU, CHANELLE PRICE of TENNESSEE TOP CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION I TRACK and FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS TOWSON, Md
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CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® TEAM S ELECTED BY C O SIDA FOR RELEASE: Thursday, June 21 – 12 noon (EDT) MILES BATTY OF BYU, CHANELLE PRICE OF TENNESSEE TOP CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION I TRACK AND FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY TEAMS TOWSON, Md. – Seniors Miles Batty of Brigham Young University and Chanelle Price of the University of Tennessee headline the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Men’s and Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Batty is a repeat selection as the Academic All-America® of the Year on the men’s side while Price was named as the Academic All-America® of the Year for the women. A neuroscience and exercise science double major with a 3.93 G.P.A., Batty is the first scholar- athlete to be named as the Division I Academic All-America® of the Year in men’s track and field/cross country. Fritz Nugent of Redlands accomplished the feat in 2007 and 2008. Batty is also one of six repeat selections on the Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Men’s and Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country first team. A native of Sandy, Utah, Batty is a two-time NCAA national champion and a six-time U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-American. Last fall in cross country, Batty was named to the All-West Coast Conference team and was the WCC individual champion. He was also named Mountain Region Athlete of the Year after winning the Mountain Region championship and turned in a 14th-place finish at the 2011 NCAA championship en route to All-America honors. During the indoor season, Batty broke the NCAA indoor mile record by almost half a second at the Millrose Games and was named as the Mountain Region Track Athlete of the Year. He earned All- America honors at the NCAA Indoor championships by finishing third in both the mile and the distance medley relay. During the spring, Batty placed second and earned All-America honors in the 1,500 meters at the NCAA Outdoor championship. He was recently awarded the NCAA Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship, the most prestigious academic award given by the NCAA. Price, a middle distance runner at Tennessee, majors in journalism and electronic media with a minor in business administration and a 3.93 G.P.A. The recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, she was an eight-time NCAA All-American during her college career. A native of Easton, Pa., she ran on a pair of national champion distance medley relay teams. A five-time Southeastern Conference champion, Price owns a pair of world records, three American and collegiate marks, and four UT marks. She is a six-time NCAA scorer and placed in SEC competition in 14 meets. Price was a six-time champion at the prestigious Penn Relays and she was selected as the 2011 SEC Track & Field Co-Scholar Athlete of the Year. Price led the Lady Vols to a ninth place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championship Meet, their best showing since 2005. – more – Batty, Price Top Capital One Academic All-America® Track & Field/Cross Country Teams – page 2 Three scholar-athletes from Stanford, graduate student Elliott Heath and seniors Chris Derrick and Miles Unterreiner, join Batty as repeat selections on the first team. Seniors Bjorn Barrefors of Nebraska, Peter Bolgert of Marquette and Nathan Corder of Alabama round out a strong contingent of repeat selections on the Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country first team. Seniors Will Barry of Texas A&M, Matt Carey of Rice and Nate Polacek of Nebraska were second team honorees who earned first team notice this year. Seniors Marvin Reitze of South Carolina and Daniel Howell of Utah State were third team honorees last year who made the first team this season. Barrefors, Bolgert and Corder are earning Capital One Academic All-America® honors for the third time. Bolgert was a second team selection in 2010 while Barrefors and Corder were members of the third team in 2010. Rounding out the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country first team are junior Curtis Beach of Duke University, graduate student Eric Finan of the University of Cincinnati, and senior John Kline of Arizona State University. A graduate student in engineering with a 4.00 G.P.A., Heath was a 10-time All-American at Stanford. The Winona, Minn., native placed 11th at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championships in the 5,000 meters and anchored the distance medley relay to a fourth-place finish. The 2011 NCAA Indoor champion in the 3,000-meter run, he was the 2010 Pac-12 Athlete of the Year and Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for cross country. A senior economics major with a 3.86 G.P.A., Derrick is a 14-time All-American. The Naperville, Ill., native was the NCAA runner-up in cross country and also finished second in the 3,000 and 5,000 meters indoors. Derrick also placed third in the 10,000 meters at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The 2012 Pac-12 Track Athlete of the Year, he is a two-time USTFCCCA Scholar-Athlete of the Year for cross country, a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner and the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for cross country. Unterreiner, a senior history major with a 4.00 G.P.A., is a two-time All-American who finished 13th at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 10,000 meters and 15th at the 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships in the 5,000. A native of Gig Harbor, Wash., he completes the Stanford contingent on 2012 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country first team. He was the NCAA Elite 88 Award Winner at the 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships and the Elite 89 Award Winner at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Nebraska was the only other school with multiple selections to the Capital One Academic All- America® Division I Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country first team as Barrefors and Polacek represented the Cornhuskers. A senior computer science major with a 3.75 G.P.A., Barrefors finished eighth in the decathlon at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships to earn first team All-America honors. It was his sixth All-American distinction. The Stockholm, Sweden, native was the Big Ten Outdoor Decathlon Champion in 2012 and earned the NCAA Elite 88 Award in 2010. Polacek, a senior English education major with a 3.91 G.P.A, earned All-American honors twice. He placed fourth indoors in the pole vault in 2011 and tied for 11th in 2012. A native of Kearney, Neb., he is a two-time team captain and was named All-Big 12 four times. As a senior, he was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree in Nebraska’s first year of Big Ten membership. – more – Batty, Price Top Capital One Academic All-America® Track & Field/Cross Country Teams – page 3 .A senior civil engineering major with a perfect 4.00 G.P.A., Barry was the Elite 89 recipient during the NCAA Indoor Championships, where he earned All-America honors as part of the seventh-place distance medley relay team for Texas A&M. He also ran the first leg of the distance medley relay team that won the Big 12 indoor title in a meet record time. A native of Texarkana, Tex., Barry was the recipient of the Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship from the Big 12. Bolgert, who graduated from Marquette with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and physics and a 3.99 G.P.A. will begin work on a doctorate in physics at Princeton University in the fall. A three-time Capital One Academic All-American® selection, he was a first team pick last year and made the third team in 2010. A native of Sheboygan, Wis., he was named the 2011 BIG EAST Male Scholar-Athlete for Cross Country. He placed 38th at the 2011 NCAA Great Lakes Regional and ranks among the top 10 all-time at Marquette in five events. Corder, a senior mathematics major at Alabama with a 4.00 G.P.A., has earned Capital One Academic All-America® notice three times. A native of Pickerington, Ohio, he is a recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He was a finalist for both the Rhodes Scholarship and the Southeastern Conference Davis Community Service Award. A senior chemistry and economics major with a 4.00 G.P.A., Carey has twice been named as the Rice Scholar Athlete of the Year. He finished 26th at the 2011 Conference USA Cross Country championships. The San Antonio, Texas, native was the 2010-11 C-USA Scholar-Athlete of the Year for cross country. A senior management and international business major with a 3.91 G.P.A., Reitze was the 2012 Southeastern Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year. The Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany, native is a four-time USTFCCCA All-American in the pole vault at South Carolina. He finished second at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championships and is the South Carolina pole vault record holder indoors and outdoors. Howell, a senior wildlife sciences & rangeland resources major with a 3.96 G.P.A., earned first team All-Western Athletic Conference honoree during his career at Utah State. A native of Manti, Utah, he won the 3,000m and 5,000m at the 2012 WAC Indoor Championships, while also capturing the 3,000m steeplechase and 5,000m titles at the 2012 WAC Outdoor Championships.