Top 10 Highlights - Number 2
WINCHESTER, Va. - For the past two weeks, the Shenandoah University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has been looking back at its top 10 highlights of the 2008-09 school year.
For the complete list and overview of the project, please click here.
Today, we look at our No. 2 Highlight: The Academic Success of our Student-Athletes
In 2008-09, the 20 teams at Shenandoah University competed in over 200 events and had countless victories and positive moments. However, nearly all of those wins take a backseat to the job the nearly 400 student-athletes did in the classroom.
A school-record 92 Academic All-USA South honorees. Six Academic All-State selections. Five ESPN The Magazine Academic District members. Three ESPN The Magazine first team Academic All-Americas. One NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship recipient.
And a women's track & field team that had the nation's highest GPA.
In short, the Hornets dominated the classroom. Giving new meaning to the term "student-athlete", the athletes at Shenandoah epitomized what it meant to compete in Division III. Each of the 20 teams had at least one member earn USA South All-Academic honors and women's track & field placed all six on the squad.
The squad also had a successful first varsity season - they were ranked during the indoor season and finished ninth at the MAC outdoor championships.
Individually, Catherine Beuerle '09, '10 D.PT, became the first two-time ESPN The Magazine first team Academic All-America with her repeat selection this spring. Beuerle, along with her teammate and fellow ESPN The Magazine first team Academic All-America Katie Haskins, led the softball team to 30 wins again in 2009.
In addition to that post-graduate scholarship, Beuerle was named as just the school's second-ever Don Scalf Award winner.
