Tuesday, June 28, 2005

MORAVIAN’ S JULIE ANDERSON NAMED TO ESPN THE MAGAZINE
ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA 2ND TEAM

WALTHAM, MA --- Senior Julie Anderson (Bethlehem, PA/Liberty HS) has been named to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America College Division Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country Second Team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

The Academic All-American® program honors 816 male and female student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. To be eligible for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® honors, a student-athlete must maintain at least a 3.20 grade-point average on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Division I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.

The College Division is made up of all the NCAA Division II and III schools in the nation as well as all NAIA schools. Student-athletes from NCAA Division I schools are named to the University Division Teams. District II is made up of schools from Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Anderson helped the Greyhounds win the team’s tenth straight Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championship and the squad’s 13th straight MAC Outdoor Championship this year.

Anderson placed second in hammer throw at 38.52 meters and sixth in discus at 32.62 meters at the 2005 MAC Outdoor meet and she was second 25-lb weight throw with toss of 13.34 meters at the MAC Indoor Championship. Anderson captured first place in 25-lb weight throw at 2003 and 2004 MAC Indoor Championships, and she was second in hammer at 2004 outdoor championship and third in 2003. Anderson competed on tennis team in fall and helped squad to three conference championships and two undefeated seasons. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2005 and is headed to Germany to teach.

Anderson is the 30th ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American in Moravian history and the 25th in the last 12 years.