Scott and LSSU women's track team earn all-academic honors

NEW ORLEANS - Lake Superior State junior Katie Scott was named to the women's USTFCCCA Division II All-Academic Team during the 2007-08 track and field season, marking the fourth time she has earned academic All-America honors.
Scott was one of 40 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference female athletes to be recognized. She is an exercise science major from Mitchell, Ont., and maintains a 3.79 grade point average. During the 2008 outdoor track season, she was ranked 33rd nationally in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:16.45.
Scott placed second in the steeplechase and sixth in the 3,000-meter run at the GLIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in May. She also recorded three top-10 finishes, including a third in the 5,000-meter run, at the GLIAC Indoor Track and Field Championships in March. Scott has also received national all-academic honors in cross country.
The LSSU women's track and field team was named a USTFCCCA All-Academic Indoor and Outdoor Scholar Team for the third straight year after posting a team GPA of 3.226. The list also included GLIAC representatives Michigan Tech, Ashland, Hillsdale, Grand Valley State and Northwood.
USTFCCCA Scholar-Athletes of the Year are Nandelle Cameron (Lincoln University-Missouri), Sheena Devine (Bemidji State), Emma Erickson (South Dakota), Katelin Rains (Minnesota State) and Jessica Selby-Tallman (Missouri Southern State). Together those five athletes attained six individual national titles both indoors and outdoors.
















