MORAVIAN’S ERIN RECKER HONORED AS MASCAC STUDENT SCHOLAR ATHLETE
FOR WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD

ANNVILLE, PA --- Moravian College senior Erin Recker (Catasauqua, PA/Catasauqua HS) has been named the 2007 Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation Student Scholar-Athlete in the sport of women’s indoor track & field.

The MASCAC recognizes one athlete for each of its 22 sports as its Scholar-Athlete Award winner. The nominee must be a senior, have participated in his or her sport during the season in which the award is given, and must have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.20. The award is based on three criteria: academic achievement, athletics excellence, and service and leadership. The student-athletes will receive their awards at the MASCAC Awards Luncheon at Widener University on May 8th.

Recker, who has a 3.48 GPA and is majoring in sociology and elementary education, competes in the sprint events for Moravian’s track & field teams, both indoors and outdoors. This past winter, Recker won the 55-meter dash at the 2007 Middle Atlantic Conference Championship in a time of 7.34 seconds, the fourth consecutive year she has won the event at the MAC Indoor Championship meet.

Over her career, Recker has qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championships in the 55-meter dash indoors and the 100 and 200-meter dashes outdoors. She placed tenth in the 55-meter dash at the 2005 NCAA Indoor Meet. Recker, who has helped Moravian to three indoor MAC team championships and two outdoors, has also won a total of nine MAC Championships in her career with two wins in the 100-meter dash outdoors, two in the 4x100-meter relay outdoors and one in the 4x200-meter relay indoors in addition to her four 55-meter dash titles indoors.

Recker, who has set seven school records in her career with five individual and two relay marks, holds five current school marks – Indoors – 55-meter dash (7.23), 60-meter dash (7.88) and 4x200-meter relay (1:46.06) – Outdoors – 100-meter dash (12.26) and 4x100-meter relay (48.17). She is part of Moravian’s outdoor 4x100-meter relay squad that set the school record and provisionally qualified for the 2007 NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships on March 31st.

Recker has been on the Dean’s List twice during her academic career at Moravian, and she has been honored on the MASCAC Academic Honor Roll five times. Recker has also been a member of Moravian’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society and the Sociology Club.