NEW ORLEANS – Cal State L.A.’s women’s track and field team had three student-athletes named to the 2009 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic team, the USTFCCCA announced on Monday.
Vivien Wadeck and
Shianne Smith, who both earned All-America honors in outdoor track and field and
Franziska Dobler, who earned a provisional qualifying mark in indoor track and field, were among 250 student-athletes representing 73 Division II programs to make up the 2009 All-Academic team.
To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic team, a student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have met the NCAA Division II Indoor or Outdoor automatic or provisional qualifying standard in their respective event.
Wadeck, a junior from Glendale College, finished second in the nation in the 5,000 meters in outdoor track and field and earned her second All-America award of the academic year. She also earned All-America honors in cross country after finishing eighth in the country.
Wadeck was also the California Collegiate Athletic Association individual champion in cross country and she also won conference titles in outdoor track in the 1,500 and 5,000. She was named the CCAA Newcomer of the Year in both cross country and outdoor track and field.
Smith, a senior from Bermuda Island and Long Beach City College, earned a pair of All-America honors in outdoor track and field. She finished sixth in the nation in the heptathlon and was part of the Golden Eagles’ 4x100 relay team that finished third in the country.
Smith also earned a provisional qualifying mark in indoor track and field but did not compete in the nationals.
She was the CCAA Newcomer of the Year in track and field in 2008.
Dobler, a sophomore from Tubigen, Germany, achieved a provisional qualifying mark in the 60 meters in indoor track and field with a time of 7.71. She also did not compete in the nationals.
Cal State L.A.’s women’s outdoor track and field team finished seventh in the NCAA Division II and picked up seven All-America awards at the nationals.