Complete Academic All-America Team
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Recent graduate and distance-running standout
Kerrin Epstein has been named to the
ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
It was the second Academic All-America honor for Epstein, who was also a third-team selection in 2009, when she became the first female cross country/track & field Academic All-American in school history. The award caps an outstanding career at Gettysburg, both on and off the track.
Epstein, who was also a three-time Academic All-District selection, kicked off a stellar senior season during cross country season, when she became the seventh runner in program history to qualify for the national championships after finishing third at the NCAA Mideast Regional, good for her third-straight all-region award. She went on to place 54th among 279 runners at the NCAA Division III Championships. She also captured All-Centennial Conference honors for the fourth year in a row by finishing fifth at the conference championships to earn first-team accolades for the second straight season. Earlier in the year, Epstein helped the Bullets into the national rankings for two weeks, their first since 1992.
Epstein continued to run well in track season, starting with an indoor campaign in which she broke the school record (5:13.70) in the mile. At the Centennial Conference Championships, she earned the bronze in the 3,000-meter run, finishing in 10:27.35 and missing the school record by less than a second, took fifth in the mile, and helped the distance-medley relay team place second. Outdoors, she set the school record (10:24.39) in the 3,000 at the Shippensburg Invitational before running a NCAA provisional-qualifying time and PR of 37:26.90 in the 10,000-meter run, good for a third-place finish, at the Centennial Conference Championships. She also scored additional points for the Bullets by taking seventh in the 1,500-meter run and eighth in the 5,000-meter run. Epstein finished the year ranked 46th nationally in the 10,000.
In the classroom, Epstein finished with a 4.01 GPA as an English and political science double major. Following cross country season, she was awarded a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, given to only 29 female student-athletes across all three NCAA divisions who compete in fall sports. A three-time selection to the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Team, Epstein has been accepted into law school at the University of Maryland. She is a member of the Pre-Law Honor Society, the English Honor Society, and Phi Beta Kappa.
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.
