Hill, Petty and Stark Named To LSC Indoor Track & Field All-Academic Team
2/21/2013 5:01:00 PM | Track & Field
RICHARDSON, TEXAS – Lone Star Conference officials Thursday selected sophomore Emily Hill and seniors Parker Petty and Matthew Stark to the Indoor Track and Field All-Academic teams.
A 2012 all-America in the heptathlon, Petty is an information technology major and native of White Deer, Texas. He has been named to the last two LSC all-academic teams and is also the league's first repeat winner in the decathlon. Petty won his first conference title in 2011 with 6,236 points and claimed the 2012 championship with 6,700 points. He went on to place ninth in the decathlon at nationals and was an all-South Central Region selection by the USTFCCCA.
Stark – a graduate of Abilene's Cooper High School – is an accounting major currently in his final semester as an accounting major. His recent career accomplishments include a spot on the 2012 Academic All-LSC squad and an eighth-place showing at last year's league championships in the decathlon with 6,034 points. Stark also finished third in the heptathlon during last winter's LSC Invitational and set the only meet record of the 2011 LSC Championships with a time of 4:41.47 in the decathlon's 1500m.
A native of Magnolia, Texas, Hill is a mid-distance specialist an accounting major. During her freshman year of 2012, Hill's top indoor races included an 800 time of 2:18.65 at the New Balance Invitational in New York City and a distance medley relay that placed second at Texas Tech in 12:27.06. Outdoors in the 800m, she improved to 2:13.90 at Baylor and later finished fourth at the Lone Star Conference Championships with a time of 2:17.29.
Overall, 22 men and women were selected to the All-Academic teams. West Texas A&M's Dylan Doss and Harding's Ewa Zaborowska were tabbed Lone Star Conference Academic Athletes of the Year.
Joining Doss, Petty and Stark on the men's all-academic team were West Texas A&M's Alexander Korn, Incarnate Word's Chris DeWitt, Marcos Mora, Alejandro Hernandez and Adan Narvaez, Texas A&M-Kingsville's Dylan Riedesel, Harding's Landon Belcher and Eastern New Mexico's Matthew Dominguez.
On the women's team with Hill and Zaborowska were Harding's Dallis Bailey, Angelo State's Emeline Crutcher, UIW's Alyson Gonzales and Shaneve Swift, WT's Emma Love and Katie Jones, TAMUK's Samantha Alvarez and Midwestern State's Cara Mack and Michelle Krezonoski.
To be eligible for LSC academic honors, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.30 grade point average and have reached sophomore status both athletically and academically. The Academic Player of Year award and All-Academic Team are selected from the list of academically qualified players, with the league's sports information directors voting on the basis of both academic and athletic achievement.
The Wildcats return to action this weekend for the start of the Lone Star Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Texas Tech.
A 2012 all-America in the heptathlon, Petty is an information technology major and native of White Deer, Texas. He has been named to the last two LSC all-academic teams and is also the league's first repeat winner in the decathlon. Petty won his first conference title in 2011 with 6,236 points and claimed the 2012 championship with 6,700 points. He went on to place ninth in the decathlon at nationals and was an all-South Central Region selection by the USTFCCCA.
Stark – a graduate of Abilene's Cooper High School – is an accounting major currently in his final semester as an accounting major. His recent career accomplishments include a spot on the 2012 Academic All-LSC squad and an eighth-place showing at last year's league championships in the decathlon with 6,034 points. Stark also finished third in the heptathlon during last winter's LSC Invitational and set the only meet record of the 2011 LSC Championships with a time of 4:41.47 in the decathlon's 1500m.
A native of Magnolia, Texas, Hill is a mid-distance specialist an accounting major. During her freshman year of 2012, Hill's top indoor races included an 800 time of 2:18.65 at the New Balance Invitational in New York City and a distance medley relay that placed second at Texas Tech in 12:27.06. Outdoors in the 800m, she improved to 2:13.90 at Baylor and later finished fourth at the Lone Star Conference Championships with a time of 2:17.29.
Overall, 22 men and women were selected to the All-Academic teams. West Texas A&M's Dylan Doss and Harding's Ewa Zaborowska were tabbed Lone Star Conference Academic Athletes of the Year.
Joining Doss, Petty and Stark on the men's all-academic team were West Texas A&M's Alexander Korn, Incarnate Word's Chris DeWitt, Marcos Mora, Alejandro Hernandez and Adan Narvaez, Texas A&M-Kingsville's Dylan Riedesel, Harding's Landon Belcher and Eastern New Mexico's Matthew Dominguez.
On the women's team with Hill and Zaborowska were Harding's Dallis Bailey, Angelo State's Emeline Crutcher, UIW's Alyson Gonzales and Shaneve Swift, WT's Emma Love and Katie Jones, TAMUK's Samantha Alvarez and Midwestern State's Cara Mack and Michelle Krezonoski.
To be eligible for LSC academic honors, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.30 grade point average and have reached sophomore status both athletically and academically. The Academic Player of Year award and All-Academic Team are selected from the list of academically qualified players, with the league's sports information directors voting on the basis of both academic and athletic achievement.
The Wildcats return to action this weekend for the start of the Lone Star Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Texas Tech.
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