2009 Track & Field Academic All-America Team
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – For the second year in a row, a member of the Gettysburg College men’s track & field team has earned Academic All-America recognition.
Tyler Kreitz (Hanover, Pa./New Oxford), a 2009 Gettysburg graduate, was named to the
ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America College Division Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country Second Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Kreitz becomes the just the second Gettysburg men’s track & field athlete to garner the award, joining
Greg Cumming ’09, who captured third-team honors last year. He is also Gettysburg’s third Academic All-America selection in the last 10 days, as lacrosse players
Nicole Ditillo and
Tim Kurpis were named to the At-Large Teams last week.
Kreitz turned in another outstanding season as the Bullets top shot put and discus thrower this past season. For the second year in a row, he earned the bronze in both the shot put and discus at the Centennial Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships. He also qualified for the ECAC Division III Outdoor Championships in both events and placed seventh in the shot and 23rd in the discus. He recorded a personal-record (PR) throw of 49-9 1/4 in the shot put this season, a mark that ranks second on Gettysburg’s all-time outdoor list.
Indoors, Kreitz captured the silver in the shot put at the Centennial Conference Championships this past winter, and his PR of 49-3 also ranks second all-time in school history. He also placed fourth in the shot put at the ECAC Indoor Championships.
Kreitz helped Gettysburg finish fifth at the Centennial Conference Indoor Championships and fourth at the outdoor championships.
Off the track, Kreitz finished with a 3.89 grade-point average as a biochemistry and molecular biology major. He received Gettysburg’s Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award for the biochemistry senior with the highest GPA as well as the Dr. George W. Stoner Award, given to a graduating senior accepted into a recognized medical school. A member of Phi Betta Kappa, he will attend Georgetown University School of Medicine next year.
The Academic All-America College Division consists of all non-NCAA Division I schools in the United States. To be nominated for the CoSIDA Academic All-America program, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.3 or higher cumulative GPA and be a starter or significant reserve.
