NATCHITOCHES -- Voted the female Outdoor Track and Field Student-Athlete of the Year in the Southland Conference, NCAA discus champion Trecey Rew led five Northwestern State competitors chosen for the 2011 Southland Conference All-Academic Teams in the sport announced Wednesday by the league office.
Also representing Northwestern on the 29-woman All-Academic Team were two sophomores, javelin thrower Carrie Lantrip and sprinter Constance Seibles. Graduate student Greg Hall, a high jumper for Northwestern, made the 22-member men's All-Academic Team.
Rew, a native of Garland, Texas, won the NCAA outdoor championship with a throw of 192-4 to break her own school and Southland record by more than 12 feet. The three-time All-American was the 2011 Southland outdoor female athlete of the year and the outstanding field performer, as well as the high-point scorer for the second consecutive season at the outdoor championships. Rew scored 26 of Northwestern's 102 points at the conference championships and led the Lady Demons to a second-place finish, the school's best-ever finish.
Carrying a perfect 4.0 grade point average in her graduate field of sport administration, Rew capped her Southland career with eight individual titles, including the discus in the conference outdoor championships and the shot put and weight throw indoors this year. Rew graduated magna cum laude in May 2010 with a 3.86 GPA in broadcast journalism.
Hall, who has a 3.70 in pursuit of his master's in sport administration, had a best of 6-8 3/4 this spring, ninth-best in the conference. The Alexandria-Bolton product also made the All-Academic Team last spring.
Lantrip, a Ruston native who finished third in the javelin at the Southland Outdoor Championships, has a 3.57 GPA in psychology. She qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships and placed 27th of 48 qualifiers for the East Preliminary Round with her second-best throw of the spring, 142-10. Her season's best was 145-9.
Seibles, a Natchitoches native and Natchitoches Central High School graduate, has a 3.10 GPA in psychology. She ran fourth in the 200 meter dash at the Southland Outdoors. Seibles, Lantrip and Rew helped the Lady Demons to their best-ever Southland team finish, second, at the outdoor championships hosted at NSU's Walter P. Ledet Track Complex.
The All-Academic Teams include student-athletes that competed in cross country in the fall, indoor track and field in the winter and outdoor track and field this spring. Head coaches, sports information directors and academic advisors vote on those rosters.
The male Student-Athlete of the Year was Sam Houston State hammer thrower Chris Calle. He and Rew also won the SLC Indoor Track and Field Student-Athlete of the Year awards, making this the first time ever that the same competitors swept those honors, which are chosen by the Southland Awards Committee, comprised of faculty athletic representatives from each of the 12 member institutions.
