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Nov. 8, 2012

2012 GNAC Academic All- Stars

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Five Western Washington University runners were named to the 2012 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Cross Country academic all-star team.

Leading the Vikings were senior Mary Rogers (Spokane/Shadle Park), a three-time selection, and junior Chip Jackson (Shoreline/Shorewood), who was named for the second straight year.

Jackson finished 16th and received all-region honors last Saturday in helping the WWU men place third at the NCAA Division II West Regionals and earn a sixth straight trip to nationals. A mathematics major, he is maintaining a 3.93 (4.0 scale) grade point average.

Rogers, who is taking a program in pre-medicine, has a 3.88 GPA.

Three Viking sophomores were named for the first time. They are Mikhaila Thornton (Bend, OR/Mountain View), Joshua Reiter (Camas) and Haley O'Connor (Sammamish/Eastlake).

Thornton is an industrial design major with a 3.61 GPA, Reiter is a computer science major with a 3.56 GPA and O'Connor is a biochemistry major with a 3.30 GPA.

To qualify for the GNAC academic team an athlete must have a GPA of at least 3.20 and be in the at least the second season of competition at their university.