Abilene Christian's Camille Vandendriessche and Tarleton State's Cassidi Porter were named Lone Star Conference Academic Athletes of the Year on Thursday when league officials announced the LSC's annual academic awards for men's and women's track and field.

      Vandendriessche was joined by 10 other track and field stars on the LSC Men's All-Academic Team, while Porter led a group of 11 standouts on the LSC Women's All-Academic Team.

      In addition to the 22 men and women on the All-Academic Teams, 24 more student-athletes were recognized on the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll.

      To be eligible for LSC academic honors, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.20 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. All qualifying student-athletes not selected for the All-Academic Team are then named to the Commissioner's Honor Roll.

      On the men's team with Vandendriessche was teammate Julius Nyango, Texas A&M-Commerce's Anthony Tosie and Josh Conder, Eastern New Mexico's Kennedy Baiywo, Guy Kcholi, Steven Aragon and Jonathan Tafoya and Texas A&M-Kingsville's Isaac Saldivar, Abel Garcia and Earsel Montgomery.

      Along with Porter on the Women's All-Academic Team were ACU's Jessica Withrow, TAMUK's Raquel Tidwell, Cathryn Pratka, Erica Alvarado and Kylie Ward, Angelo State's Ashley Painter, Janna Henderson, Kyndel Howell and Brittney Heath and ENMU's Hannah Rhoten.

  2008 LSC TRACK & FIELD ALL-ACADEMIC AWARDS

MEN'S ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM

    Player                                    Team                                      Yr.       Major                                  Hometown

    Camille Vandendriessche Abilene Christian                 Sr.       Journalism                        Paris, France

    Julius Nyango                      Abilene Christian                 Sr.       Chemistry                         Aldai, Kenya

    Anthony Tosie                      Texas A&M-Commerce     Jr.        Public Relations               Argyle, Texas

    Kennedy Baiywo                 Eastern New Mexico           Sr.       Elec. Engineering            Eldorat, Kenya

    Josh Conder                         Texas A&M-Commerce     Jr.        Health                                Cash, Texas

    Guy Kcholi                            Eastern New Mexico           Jr.        Biology                              Yaure, Israel

    Isaac Saldivar                      Texas A&M-Kingsville        Jr.        Psychology                       Cotulla, Texas

    Steven Aragon                     Eastern New Mexico           So.      Biology                              Los Lunas, N.M.

    Abel Garcia                           Texas A&M-Kingsville        Jr.        Criminology                      Del Rio, Texas

    Earsel Montgomery            Texas A&M-Kingsville        So.      Biology                              Houston, Texas

    Jonathan Tafoya                 Eastern New Mexico           So.      Psychology                       Santa Fe, N.M.

LSC Men's Track & Field Academic Players of the Year: Camille Vandendriessche, Abilene Christian

MEN'S COMMISSIONER'S HONOR ROLL

AbileneChristian: Landon Ehlers, So.; James Hardin, So.; Emery Dudensing, So.; Jordan Traub, So.;

Aaron Cantrell, So.; AngeloState: Kendall Smith, So.; Steven Barraza, Jr.; Terrell Lee, Jr.;

Eastern New Mexico: Matthew Miller, So.; Robert Griego, So.;

TarletonState: Sherraud Roberts, So.;

TexasA&M-Commerce: Anthony Valle, Jr.; Alfredo Soto, So.;

TexasA&M-Kingsville: Ted Dugie, So.

WOMEN'S ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM

    Player                                    Team                                      Yr.       Major                                  Hometown

    Cassidi Porter                      Tarleton State                       Jr.        Exer.&Sport Studies        Fort Worth, Texas

    Jessica Withrow                   Abilene Christian                 Jr.        Exer.&Sports Science     Muleshoe, Texas

    Raquel Tidwell                     Texas A&M-Kingsville        So.      Special Education           Katy, Texas

    Ashley Painter                      Angelo State                         Jr.        Life Science                     San Angelo, Texas

    Janna Henderson               Angelo State                         Sr.       Int'l Business                    Lubbock, Texas

    Kyndel Howell                      Angelo State                       Jr.      Kinesiology                          Plano, Texas

    Cathryn Pratka                     Texas A&M-Kingsville        So.      Geology                             Pleasanton, Texas

    Brittney Heath                      Angelo State                         So.      Art                                       San Angelo, Texas

    Erica Alvarado                     Texas A&M-Kingsville        Jr.        Biomedical Science        Falfurrias, Texas

    Hannah Rhoten                   Eastern New Mexico           So.      Biology                              Albuquerque, N.M.

    Kylie Ward                            Texas A&M-Kingsville        So.      Kinesiology                       Amarillo, Texas

LSC Women's Track & Field Academic Player of the Year: Cassidi Porter, Tarleton State

WOMEN'S COMMISSIONER'S HONOR ROLL

AbileneChristian: Julie Jacobsma, So.; Kim Prather, Jr.; Elizabeth Buyse, So.;

Shawna-Kaye Thompson, Sr.; Sandy Marshall, Sr.; Hayley Garner, Jr.;

AngeloState: Kris Crockett, So.; Andria Nussey, So.; Patricia Dailey, Jr.;

TarletonState: Kymberlee Trnka, Jr.