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Beach, Alaima earn academic honors for George Fox University |
Jessica Beach of George
Fox University and teammate Katie Alaimo have been named to the ESPN
The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII College Division
Cross Country/Track and Field First Team, as voted on by members of
the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Beach, an academic senior and athletic junior from Sherwood, has a
4.0 grade point average while majoring in engineering at George Fox.
During the spring track season, she placed second in the 1,500-meter
run in the Lewis & Clark Invitational, third in the 800 in the
Linfield Invitational, and recorded one first and two thirds with
the Bruins’ 4 x 100 meter relay team.
She finished 14th in the Pioneer Open in her only cross country
race of the fall before placing 28th in the Northwest Conference
Championship race and then earned All-West Region honors with a
30th-place finish in the NCAA Division III regionals. She scored in
eight of her 15 career races at George Fox.
Beach ranks seventh on the GFU all-time 6K list (22:55.27). This is
the second year in a row she has been named to the Academic
All-District VIII First Team.
Alaimo, a junior from The Dalles, compiled a 3.95 grade point
average as a History major at George Fox. This past spring, she won
the Northwest Conference championship in the long jump with a
distance of 16-feet 7-inches, and also earned All-NWC honors with a
third-place finish in the high jump (4-11.5). She was a three-time
nominee for NWC Field Athlete of the Week.
Among her other best finishes, she won the high jump in the Point
Loma Nazarene Spring Break meet, placed third in the NWC South meet,
and fourth in Willamette Opener. She also had a third in the long
jump in the Willamette Opener, placed fifth in the triple jump in
the NWC South meet, and was seventh in the Oregon Preview and 10th
in the Trojan Invitational in the triple jump against predominantly
Division I competition. In the NWC marks this season, Alaimo was
first in the long jump (16-7), fourth in the high jump (5-1.75), and
10th in the triple jump (32-11.75).
Joining the two Bruins on the Academic All-District VIII First Team
are Sarah Zerzan of Willamette University, Avery Kelly and Natalie
Calderon of the University of Redlands, Andrea Brandt of California
State University-San Bernardino, Madeleine Flint and Jillian Sola of
the University of California-San Diego, Karin Rodhe and Teona
Perkins of Seattle Pacific University, and Tamma Carleton of Lewis &
Clark College. All are automatically submitted as candidates for the
Academic All-America Teams.
District VIII of CoSIDA consists of all sports information
directors and college sports media relations personnel from Alaska,
British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, Arizona,
Nevada, Utah, and Idaho. This is the third year for the CoSIDA
Academic All-America teams to be sponsored by ESPN The Magazine. |
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From June 16, 2007, Newberg Graphic
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