NATCHITOCHES – Five Northwestern State track and field members were selected to the Southland Conference Indoor All-Academic teams, the league announced Tuesday.

Jumpers Jasmyn Steels and Brooke Petkovich, sprinter Natashia Jackson and pole vaulter Annemarie Broussard represented the Lady Demons on the 36-member women's team.

Thrower Marco Arevalo represents the men's track and field team on a 30-member unit.

The Lady Demons were one of four conference members with four or more members on the women's academic squad.

Steels is making her third appearance on the league's academic team after recording a 3.25 GPA in her first semester of graduate school (sports administration), one of three female student-athletes to be selected to the maximum number of conference academic teams possible (freshmen aren't eligible).

The senior ranked seventh nationally in the long jump heading in to defend her NCAA Indoor national championship before the novel coronavirus ended the season. The three-time All-American won her first conference title in the long jump, adding silver in the triple jump and fifth in the high jump en route to the SLC Indoor Field Events Performer of the Year.

Jackson took home her third SLC Indoor Most Outstanding Performer honor, adding the Runner and Track Athlete of the Year as a senior after breaking the league's 200 and 400 meters records along with a 4X400 relay gold and school record.

The Houston, Texas, native is making her first appearance on the SLC All-Academic Team with a 3.0 GPA in psychology.

Petkovich earned her second nod as a senior, completing her health and exercise science degree with a perfect 4.0 GPA.

The Kenner native scored in her final SLC Outdoors meet, logging an eighth-place mark in the triple jump.

Broussard, a sophomore, is making her first appearance after breaking NSU's pole vault record (13-9.25). The Abbeville native captured silver at SLC Indoors and has a 3.7 GPA in health and exercise science.

Arevalo made his mark as a sophomore, taking silver in the shot put at SLC Indoors. The Falfurrias, Texas, native logged a 3.51 GPA in business administration.

NSU's last male selection to the SLC All-Academic team was Ceaser Stephens in 2018, which broke a two-year drought.
 
2020 Southland Conference Men's Track & Field All-Academic Team

Name	School	Cl.	GPA	Major
Blaze Brownlow3	Abilene Christian	Sr.	3.77	Financial Management
Ross Dean	Abilene Christian	Jr.	4.0	Financial Management
Zac Bitton	Central Arkansas	Sr.	3.72	Business Management & Marketing
Jared Hamilton2	Central Arkansas	Sr.	3.70	Health Professions & Relate Programs
Alex Hanson	Central Arkansas	Sr.	3.49	Business Management & Marketing
Hunter Henderson	Central Arkansas	So.	4.0	Health Related Knowledge & Skills
Zachary Jewell	Central Arkansas	Sr.	3.63	Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Scott Boon	Houston Baptist	So.	3.76	International Business
Christos Zachariou2	Houston Baptist	Sr.	3.96	Psychology
Jordan Cherin2	UIW	Sr.	3.96	Computer Information Systems
Matthew Hernandez	UIW	Jr.	3.57	Accounting
Rodney Littlejohn3	UIW	Gr.	3.93	Kinesiology
Matthew Arnold*^2	Lamar	Gr.	3.68	English
Jordan Rowe	Lamar	Gr.	3.90	Kinesiology
Joey Croft	McNeese	So.	3.83	HHP – Sports Wellness & Management
Luke Horgan	McNeese	Sr.	3.50	Marketing
Nemanja Koviljac3	McNeese	Sr.	4.0	Chemical Engineering
Josh Raphael	McNeese	Jr.	4.0	Mass Communication
Dustin Worley	Nicholls	So.	3.83	Chemistry
Marco Arevalo	Northwestern State	So.	3.51	Business Administration
Clayton Fritsch2	Sam Houston State	Jr.	3.25	Construction Management
Cade Skuza	Sam Houston State	Sr.	3.85	Construction Management
Austin Zirkel	Sam Houston State	Jr.	3.91	Criminal Justice
Gerald Coleman2	Southeastern Louisiana	Sr.	3.01	Sports Management
Ricardo Klotz	Southeastern Louisiana	So.	3.30	Psychology
Branson Ellis	Stephen F. Austin	So.	3.15	Ag Engineering Technology
Bjoern Adden2	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Sr.	3.97	Business Management
Colton Cohea2	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Sr.	3.71	Mechanical Engineering
Zachary Seaman	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	So.	3.94	Business
Isaac Vargas	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Sr.	3.80	Engineering

 
2020 Southland Conference Women's Track & Field All-Academic Team

Name	School	Cl.	GPA	Major
Irene Akwitti3	Abilene Christian	Sr.	3.71	Nursing
Annina Brandenburg2	Abilene Christian	Sr.	3.73	Marketing
Briahna Gerlach2	Abilene Christian	Sr.	3.64	Social Work
Zoe Spinn	Abilene Christian	Jr.	3.92	Nursing
Taylor Tolen	Abilene Christian	Sr.	3.67	Kinesiology
Mackenzie West	Abilene Christian	Gr.	3.00	Nutrition
Ajah Criner2	Central Arkansas	Sr.	3.31	Health Professions & Related Programs
Gracie Hyde	Central Arkansas	So.	4.0	Health Related Knowledge & Skills
Erin Woodward2	Central Arkansas	Sr.	4.0	Health Professions & Related Programs
Kaitlin Smith2	Houston Baptist	Jr.	3.97	Kinesiology
Jemira Thomlinson	Houston Baptist	Sr.	3.26	Interdisciplinary Studies
Alia Henderson	UIW	So.	3.75	Government
Madison Henry	UIW	Jr.	4.0	Management
Alisa Novosad	UIW	So.	4.0	Rehabilitative Sciences
Katherine Ramirez	UIW	R-Sr.	3.50	Business Administration
Julie Emmerson	Lamar	Gr.	4.0	Kinesiology
Alanna Arvie3	McNeese	Sr.	4.0	Biology – Pre-med.
Brentney Carroll	McNeese	Sr.	4.0	Graduate Studies
Aleyah Donald2	McNeese	Sr.	4.0	Criminal Justice
Ciara Gilroy	McNeese	So.	4.0	HHP – Pre-Physical Therapy
Malayia Jedkins	McNeese	So.	4.0	Nursing
Arina Kleshchukova	New Orleans	Jr.	3.71	Interdisciplinary Studies
Omo Oboh	Nicholls	So.	3.18	Nursing
Annemarie Broussard	Northwestern State	So.	3.70	Health & Exercise Science
Natashia Jackson	Northwestern State	Sr.	3.00	Psychology
Brooke Petkovich2	Northwestern State	Sr.	4.0	Health & Exercise Science
Jasmyn Steels3	Northwestern State	Gr.	3.25	Sports Administration
Sandy Clarkin	Sam Houston State	Jr.	3.94	Kinesiology
Rebeca Gonzalez	Sam Houston State	Sr.	4.0	Health Care Administration
Kaylee Bizzell	Stephen F. Austin	Sr.	3.50	Nursing
Claire Crone	Stephen F. Austin	Jr.	3.97	Mathematics
Mallory Dotson	Stephen F. Austin	Jr.	4.0	Kinesiology
Avery Ellis-Byerly	Stephen F. Austin	Jr.	4.0	Kinesiology
Kelsey Ramirez2	Stephen F. Austin	Jr.	3.86	Kinesiology
LaSean Davis	Stephen F. Austin	Jr.	3.17	Kinesiology
Allyson Girard	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Sr.	3.49	Biomedical Science

 
* Automatic selection
2 Two-time all-academic selection
3 Three-time all-academic selection
^ Google Cloud Academic All-District selection