Moravian Track Star Claims Academic All-DistricRecognition
BETHLEHEM, PA - Graduate student Nathaniel Tussey
(Perkiomenville, PA/Boyertown HS) of the Moravian College
men’s outdoor track & field team has been named to the
2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II College Division
Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country First Team selected by
the College Sports Information Directors of America.
By making the All-District First Team, Tussey is now forwarded
onto the national ballot to try for ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-American® accolades, which will be announced on Thursday,
June 18th.
To be eligible for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America®
accolades, a student-athlete must maintain at least a 3.20
grade-point average, be a sophomore, junior, senior or graduate
student and be a starter or significant reserve. The College
Division is made up of all the NCAA Division II and III schools in
the nation as well as all NAIA schools. Student-athletes from NCAA
Division I schools are named to the University Division Teams.
District II is made up of schools from Delaware, the District of
Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Tussey, who graduated in 2008 with a 3.49 GPA and a degree in
Biology and returned to the school this year as a graduate student
maintaining a 3.93 GPS while working towards his MBA, was named the
Male Most Outstanding Performer at the 2009 ECAC Division III
Outdoor Championships after winning both the 110-meter high hurdle
and 400-meter hurdle events and leading the Greyhounds to their
second straight ECAC team title. Tussey finished ninth in both
events at the 2009 NCAA Division III Outdoor National
Championships, and he won both races at the Landmark Conference
Championships as Moravian won its second consecutive team
title.
Tussey, who was using a medical redshirt to compete in 2009 after
missing the outdoor season as a freshman in 2005, earned
All-American honors three times in his career, finishing fifth in
both events at the 2008 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships,
and eighth in the 55-meter hurdles at the 2006 NCAA Division III
Indoor Championships. Tussey won eight individual and one relay
conference title during his career and was a seven-time member of
the conference academic honor roll.
Tussey will try to become the 34th ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-American in Moravian history and the 29th in the last 16 years.
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