Fairbanks, Alaska – Alaska cross country's
Theresia Schnurr and
Heather Edic were named to the 2011-12 Capital One Academic All-District® Women's Track&Field/Cross Country Team. The squad was selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
The Academic All-District® teams honor the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.
The pair represented two of the six Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's track and field and cross country runners named to the 11-member District 8 squad, which is represented by student-athletes from the GNAC, the Pacific West Conference and California Collegiate Athletic Association. Seattle Pacific's Katy Gross, Natty Plunkett and Ali Worthen and Alaska Anchorage's Haleigh Lloyd joined the Nanook duo in the league selections.
Schnurr, who will complete a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in the fall, has maintained a 3.83 cumulative grade-point average. Although she exhausted her running eligibility in the fall of 2011, the Voehrenbach, Germany native will return in September and begin graduate level course work, before enrolling as a full-time grad student in the spring and completing her final year of skiing eligibility in the winter.
UAF's Intercollegiate Athletics Council Female Scholar Athlete of the Year and the Alaska cross country team's 2011 most valuable runner, Schnurr was a 2011 All-West Region and All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference selection and helped lead the Blue and Gold to fourth place finishes at the GNAC and West Region Championships en route to the program's first-ever team berth to the NCAA Championships.
Edic, a civil engineering major from Fairbanks, carries a 3.83 GPA. She represented the Blue and Gold alongside Schnurr on the women's team that placed fourth at the conference and West Region Championships and participated at the 2011 NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships last fall.
For her academic prowess, the returning senior has garnered several academic honors over her career, including GNAC and USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors in each of the last two seasons.
Along with Schnurr and Edic, each member of the Division II All-District® teams advances to the Capital One Academic All-America® Team ballot. The 2012 Academic All-America® Teams are expected to be announced on June 20.
