USTFCCCA News & Notes
Middlebury College Named USTFCCCA Division III Women’s XC Scholar Team of the Year
NEW ORLEANS –The Middlebury College Panthers are the 2008 NCAA Division III USTFCCCA Women’s Cross Country Scholar Team of the Year, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced on Monday. Middlebury finished 15th at the 2007 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships before winning the 2008 NCAA Division III Cross Country title.
Middlebury won the 2008 New England Regional Championship and was the co-champion of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). Middlebury, which maintains a cumulative 3.480 grade point average, was also on the USTFCCCA All-Academic team list in 2007, and in 2006.
Bluffton University had the highest overall team grade point average (3.859). A record total of 156 Division III women’s programs received the USTFCCCA’s All-Academic Team honors this year compared to 141 schools from last season.
Forty-percent of all Division III institutions (394) who sponsor women’s cross country received the honor. In addition, 30 of the 32 teams in the championship field at this year’s NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships were named USTFCCCA All-Academic Teams, including every team who finished in the top ten.
The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) had the most conference members represented on the list with 11 teams, followed by the NESCAC with nine schools. Five conferences were tied with eight each; the Centennial Conference, the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, the University Athletic Association, and the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
For a team to be considered for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team award, they must have competed and compiled a team score at an NCAA Regional Meet. The team must also have a minimum 3.10 team cumulative grade point average.
The 2008 NCAA Division III USTFCCCA Women’s All-Academic Teams
| INSTITUTION | GPA |
| Albion College | 3.589 |
| Allegheny College | 3.100 |
| Amherst College | 3.500 |
| Augsburg College | 3.620 |
| Augustana College (Illinois) | 3.270 |
| Babson College | 3.360 |
| Baldwin-Wallace College | 3.646 |
| Beloit College | 3.410 |
| Bethany College (West Virginia) | 3.376 |
| Bethel University (Minnesota) | 3.550 |
| Bluffton University | 3.859 |
| Brandeis University | 3.437 |
| Bryn Mawr College | 3.313 |
| Calvin College | 3.568 |
| Capital University | 3.640 |
| Carleton College | 3.630 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 3.530 |
| Carthage College | 3.491 |
| Case Western Reserve University | 3.586 |
| Centre College | 3.190 |
| Christopher Newport University | 3.410 |
| Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges | 3.345 |
| Coe College | 3.225 |
| Colby College | 3.500 |
| College of St. Benedict | 3.440 |
| College of St. Catherine | 3.471 |
| College of St. Scholastica | 3.530 |
| College of Wooster | 3.334 |
| Colorado College | 3.239 |
| Concordia College, Moorhead | 3.390 |
| Concordia University (Wisconsin) | 3.190 |
| Connecticut College | 3.501 |
| Cornell College | 3.472 |
| Defiance College | 3.109 |
| Denison University | 3.370 |
| DePauw University | 3.450 |
| Dickinson College | 3.150 |
| Earlham College | 3.660 |
| Elizabethtown College | 3.300 |
| Elmhurst College | 3.500 |
| Emory University | 3.550 |
| Franklin College | 3.400 |
| Frostburg State University | 3.314 |
| Gettysburg College | 3.376 |
| Greenville College | 3.272 |
| Grinnell College | 3.550 |
| Grove City College | 3.260 |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | 3.400 |
| Gwynedd-Mercy College | 3.431 |
| Hamilton College | 3.630 |
| Hamline University | 3.634 |
| Hanover College | 3.100 |
| Haverford College | 3.600 |
| Hendrix College | 3.460 |
| Hood College | 3.438 |
| Hope College | 3.300 |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | 3.559 |
| Ithaca College | 3.423 |
| John Carroll University | 3.300 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 3.380 |
| Kenyon College | 3.440 |
| Lewis & Clark College | 3.469 |
| Linfield College | 3.400 |
| Loras College | 3.300 |
| Luther College | 3.535 |
| Lynchburg College | 3.390 |
| Macalester College | 3.510 |
| Marietta College | 3.170 |
| Martin Luther College | 3.288 |
| Maryville University of Saint Louis | 3.729 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 3.440 |
| Messiah College | 3.562 |
| Middlebury College | 3.480 |
| Milwaukee School of Engineering | 3.260 |
| Misericordia University | 3.490 |
| Mount Union College | 3.814 |
| Muhlenberg College | 3.403 |
| Nazareth College | 3.404 |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | 3.620 |
| New York University | 3.270 |
| North Central College | 3.406 |
| North Park University | 3.430 |
| Oberlin College | 3.410 |
| Occidental College | 3.350 |
| Ohio Northern University | 3.360 |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | 3.383 |
| Otterbein College | 3.700 |
| Penn State Univ. Erie, the Behrend College | 3.218 |
| Plattsburgh State University of New York | 3.240 |
| Pomona-Pitzer Colleges | 3.375 |
| Principia College | 3.446 |
| Ramapo College | 3.267 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 3.377 |
| Rhodes College | 3.353 |
| Ripon College | 3.750 |
| Roanoke College | 3.317 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | 3.440 |
| Roger Williams University | 3.480 |
| Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota | 3.352 |
| Salisbury University | 3.128 |
| Shenandoah University | 3.432 |
| Simpson College | 3.557 |
| Smith College | 3.373 |
| Southwestern University (Texas) | 3.492 |
| Springfield College | 3.581 |
| St. Joseph College – Connecticut | 3.160 |
| St. Lawrence University | 3.328 |
| St. Norbert College | 3.440 |
| St. Olaf College | 3.460 |
| State University College at Brockport | 3.532 |
| State University College at Cortland | 3.270 |
| State University College at New Paltz | 3.360 |
| State University College at Oneonta | 3.260 |
| State University of New York at Geneseo | 3.374 |
| Stevens Institute of Technology | 3.506 |
| Susquehanna University | 3.280 |
| Swarthmore College | 3.430 |
| The College of New Jersey | 3.293 |
| Trinity College (Connecticut) | 3.218 |
| Trinity University (Texas) | 3.376 |
| Tufts University | 3.542 |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | 3.380 |
| University of Chicago | 3.485 |
| University of Dubuque | 3.300 |
| University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth | 3.340 |
| University of Puget Sound | 3.550 |
| University of Redlands | 3.189 |
| University of Rochester | 3.300 |
| University of Texas at Tyler | 3.140 |
| University of the South | 3.183 |
| University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire | 3.420 |
| University of Wisconsin, La Crosse | 3.310 |
| University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh | 3.312 |
| University of Wisconsin, Platteville | 3.130 |
| University of Wisconsin, River Falls | 3.210 |
| University of Wisconsin, Stout | 3.304 |
| University of Wisconsin, Superior | 3.400 |
| University of Wisconsin, Whitewater | 3.351 |
| Ursinus College | 3.290 |
| Vassar College | 3.510 |
| Wartburg College | 3.400 |
| Washington and Lee University | 3.488 |
| Washington University (Missouri) | 3.550 |
| Webster University | 3.540 |
| Wellesley College | 3.360 |
| Wesleyan University (Connecticut) | 3.500 |
| Westminster College (Pennsylvania) | 3.335 |
| Wheaton College (Massachusetts) | 3.330 |
| Whitman College | 3.454 |
| Whittier College | 3.210 |
| Whitworth University | 3.742 |
| Willamette University | 3.530 |
| William Smith College | 3.526 |
| Williams College | 3.500 |
| Wisconsin Lutheran College | 3.510 |
| Wittenberg University | 3.340 |