Southern Arkansas senior cross-country runner Michelle Beavers has been named to the 2014-15 Capital One Academic All-America\u00ae First-Team for Cross-Country\/Track and Field as it was announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Beavers, a native of Metairie, La., earned Capital One Academic All-America\u00ae Second-Team honors last year as a junior, and is the first female student-athlete and second overall at Southern Arkansas to be named an Academic All-American more than once.She is also one of three female student-athletes from the Great American Conference to earn the prestigious national award and is one of two to appear on the first-team.<\/p>\n
A recent Summa Cum Laude graduate from the Honors College at Southern Arkansas in Chemistry Pre-Health & Biology Pre-health, Beavers capped her four-year career at SAU with a perfect 4.0 G.P.A.<\/p>\n
As a cross country runner this past fall, Beavers finished 15th overall with a time of 20:32.0 at the Great American Conference Championships, making her an All-GAC Second-Team runner for the second straight year. A four-year runner for SAU, Beavers has been named to the GAC All-Academic Team three times including inclusion on the fall 2014 team.<\/p>\n
The Capital One Academic All-America\u00ae program honors student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level in athletics and in the classroom. To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at their current institution and be nominated by the sports information director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Southern Arkansas senior cross-country runner Michelle Beavers has been named to the 2014-15 Capital One Academic All-America\u00ae First-Team for Cross-Country\/Track and Field as it was announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Wednesday. Beavers, a native of Metairie, La., earned Capital One Academic All-America\u00ae Second-Team honors last year as a junior,… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":4610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[271,92,308,7753],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}