IWU’s Anderson Earns Academic All-District

June 8, 2007

Illinois Wesleyan junior Rachel Anderson has been elected to the first team of the all-District V academic women’s track and field squad and will join representatives of seven other districts on the ESPN: The Magazine Academic All-America national ballot.
Anderson (Clinton, Ill. HS), a nine-time track All-American, has a 3.76 grade-point average as a business major. She is an academic all-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin selection, is a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and serves as an ambassador for the IWU Admissions Office.
She was the national NCAA Division III indoor 400 champion in 2006 and 2007 and was also the national outdoor 400 champion. In this spring’s outdoor meet, she was second in the 400 and sixth in 200.
Anderson is a three-time CCIW indoor 400 winner and two-times in the outdoor 400 as well as the CCIW indoor and outdoor 200 champion in 2006 and 2007.
She ran on the second place 1,600 relay team in the 2007 NCAA indoor meet after her 1,600 relay team placed eighth indoors in 2006. As a freshman (2005) she was second in 400 indoor national meet and fifth outdoors.
The all-district teams are chosen by a vote of members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario. To be considered for the ESPN: The Magazine Academic All-America squads, players must be of at least sophomore standing, have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.2 (of 4.0), and be a starter or first-line reserve.
Since the program began in 1970, Illinois Wesleyan student-athletes have earned a total of 104 Academic All-America berths, a total eclipsed by only six other schools, including Nebraska, Notre Dame, Penn State, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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