Eastern New Mexico’s Bill Squire and Angelo State’s Cathryn Rittenberry were named Lone Star Conference Academic Athletes of the Year on Wednesday when league officials announced the LSC’s annual academic awards for men’s and women’s track and field.
Squire was joined by 11 other track and field standouts on the LSC Men’s All-Academic Team, while Rittenberry led a group of 12 stars on the LSC Women’s All-Academic Team.
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.
On the men’s team with Squire were Angelo State’s Brian Holik, Wade Goode and Clint Bippert, Texas A&M-Commerce’s Robert Reed and Brandon Womack, along with Incarnate Word’s Howard Gill, Sebastien Jaraba-Heffner, George Alicea, Christian Alicea, Corey McDonnough and Richard Borchardt.
Joining Rittenberry on the Women’s All-Academic Team was fellow Rambelle Summer Sutherland, West Texas A&M’s Tara Tarrant, Katie Jones, Bailee Skeen and Jadiah Riley, Texas A&M-Kingsville’s Katie Dugie and Samantha Alvarez, Tarleton State’s Elizabeth Dominguez, UIW’s Stephanie Glatt and Stacy Stanusch and ENMU’s Nicole Reid.
Overall, 24 men and women were selected to the All-Academic teams.
2011 LSC TRACK & FIELD ALL-ACADEMIC AWARDS
MEN’S ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM
Player Team Yr. Major Hometown
Bill Squire Eastern New Mexico Jr. Animal and Dairy Science Hagerman, N.M.
Brian Holik Angelo State Sr. Exercise Science Wall, Texas
Robert Reed Texas A&M-Commerce Sr. Kinesiology Sachse, Texas
Brandon Womack Texas A&M-Commerce Sr. Kinesiology Lone Oak, Texas
Wade Goode Angelo State Jr. Applied Physics Midland, Texas
Howard Gill Incarnate Word So. Biology San Antonio, Texas
Sebastien Jaraba-Heffner Incarnate Word Jr. Business Management Trefflean, France
George Alicea Incarnate Word Sr. Business Administration San Antonio, Texas
Christian Alicea Incarnate Word Sr. Marketing San Antonio, Texas
Clint Bippert Angelo State So. Chemistry Castroville, Texas
Corey McDonnough Incarnate Word So. Mathematics Port Lavaca, Texas
Richard Borchardt Incarnate Word So. Finance Pharr, Texas
LSC Men’s Track & Field Academic Players of the Year: Bill Squire, Eastern New Mexico
WOMEN’S ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM
Player Team Yr. Major Hometown
Cathryn Rittenberry Angelo State Jr. Integrated Accounting Carthage, Texas
Tara Tarrant West Texas A&M So. English Amarillo, Texas
Katie Dugie Texas A&M-Kingsville Sr. Business Marketing Yorktown, Texas
Katie Jones West Texas A&M So. Sports & Exercise Science Boys Ranch, Texas
Bailee Skeen West Texas A&M So. Sports & Exercise Science Amarillo, Texas
Elizabeth Dominguez Tarleton State So. Kinesiology Joshua, Texas
Stephanie Glatt Incarnate Word So. Nursing San Antonio, Texas
Samantha Alvarez Texas A&M-Kingsville So. Pre-Med Victoria, Texas
Jadiah Riley West Texas A&M Sr. Sociology Moore, Okla.
Summer Sutherland Angelo State So. Nursing Crane, Texas
Nicole Reid Eastern New Mexico Jr. Criminal Justice Pueblo, Colo.
Stacy Stanusch Incarnate Word So. Kinesiology La Vernia, Texas
LSC Women’s Track & Field Academic Player of the Year: Cathryn Rittenberry, Angelo State