CHARLOTTE, N.C.- The United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association announced the 2009 Cross Country All-Academic award recipients and two Queens University of Charlotte runners,
Meagan Nedlo (Mt. Pleasant, Tex., Pittsburg) and
Jessica Neville (Cold Spring, N.Y., Haldane), were amongst the winners.
To qualify for All-Academic honors, a student-athlete must have completed at least 12 semester/quarter hours through the semester of competition at the institution to be eligible. The student-athlete must have at least a 3.25 cumulative grade point average and have placed in the top 30% of the total number of athletes eligible to compete at the respective regional championships or have placed in the top 50% of the field at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships.
Nedlo and Neville make up two of the three Conference Carolinas runners to be placed on the All-Academic list. Whitney Bishop of Anderson University was the third conference student-athlete to earn the honor.
Both of the Queens honoree were members of the 2009 women’s cross country team that advanced to the program’s first-ever NCAA Division II Cross Country Championship.
The honor is a second for Neville, who was one of three Royals to be named to the list in 2008.
Nedlo is an organization communication major while Neville is majoring in psychology.