Mary West Earns Cross Country Academic Award

by Contributor | March 27, 2016 8:18 am

TROY, NY – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced its annual All-Academic Team award and Rensselaer Polytechnic Student student-athlete Mary West was among the award winners.

To earn that distinction, student-athletes must have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or higher and finish in the top 25 percent at their respective regional.

A junior, West (G. Ray Bodley High School) was All-Region following her 28th place finish at Regionals.

An All-Liberty League Second Team member, she was 174th at the NCAA Meet, joining her teammates in helping the Engineers to ninth place in the nation – the best in school history.

West is a biochemistry and biophysics major.

RPI’s women’s team, which won the Liberty League Championship, had 15 of 22 student-athletes earn Dean’s List recognition in the fall semester.

Fourteen members had a 3.50 or better, including two with perfect 4.0s.

Ten were selected to the Liberty League All-Academic team.

Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is America’s oldest technological research university.

For nearly two centuries, the institute has been a driving force behind breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every arena – from transportation and infrastructure to business, medicine, outer space, and cyberspace.

As it approaches its bicentennial anniversary, the institute continues to define The New Polytechnic, a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and research that uses advanced technologies to enable fresh collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and regions, in order to answer the global challenges of our day.

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