Dekkers Named Second-Team Academic All-America
Thursday, June 24, 2010 | Track and Field
Senior Florida thrower Evelien Dekkers (Etten-Leur, Netherlands), the 2010 NCAA women's javelin champion, has been named a CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Second-Team Academic All-America selection, it was announced Thursday.
Dekkers, a two-time ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-District III selection, holds a 3.84 grade-point average, majoring in food science and human nutrition. She also is minoring in business administration and is on track to graduate this summer.
Dekkers is the only person in school history to win an NCAA women's javelin championship and did so at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. She concludes her collegiate career as Florida's career leader in the women's javelin with a school-record toss of 59.00m/193-7, recorded in her last collegiate competition. She goes down as the No. 7 all-time collegiate performer in the women's javelin.
Dekkers, a four-time Pepsi Florida Relays javelin champion, won the Southeastern Conference women's javelin title in each of her three collegiate seasons and earned three All-America honors during the course of her career.
Dekkers is the fifth person in women's track and field school history to earn Academic All-America honors and the first since Dara Altman in 2006. Those five people have combined for six all-time Academic All-America honors since 1996.
Dekkers also has been named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll in each year of her collegiate career.
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FLORIDA WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD ALL-TIME ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA
- Ebony Robinson, 1996 (Second Team)
- Beth Cranston, 1998 (First Team)
- Megan Westfall, 2002 (First Team)
- Dara Altman, 2005 (Second Team)
- Dara Altman, 2006 (First Team)
- Evelien Dekkers, 2010 (Second Team)
2010 ESPN THE MAGAZINE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA FIRST TEAM
- Jackie Areson, Tennessee (Sr., 3.62, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Amy Backel, Oklahoma (Sr., 3.98, Civil Engineering)
- Jenny Barringer, Colorado (Sr., 3.71, Political Science & Economics)
- Angela Bizzari, Illinois (Sr., 3.62, Molecular & Cellular Biology)
- Carrie Burggraf, Austin Peay (Sr., 4.00, Political Science & History)
- Whitney Carlson, North Dakota State (Jr., 4.00, Zoology)
- Caitlin Clancy, Tulsa (Sr., 4.00, Mechanical Engineering)
- Heather Dorniden, Minnesota (Sr., 3.95, Kinesiology)
- Kylie Hutson, Indiana State (Sr., 3.46, Physical Education & Exercise Science)
- Whitney Kerth, Arkansas Little-Rock (Sr., 4.00, Economics)
- Lisa Koll, Iowa State (Gr., 3.82, Veterinary Medicine)
- Katie Stripling, Arkansas (Sr., 3.95, Kinesiology)
- Liane Weber, Clemson (Sr., 3.78, Health Science)
- Kimberly Williams, FSU (Jr., 3.38, Sport Management)
- Phoebe Wright, Tennessee (Sr., 3.96, Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology)
2010 ESPN THE MAGAZINE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA SECOND TEAM
- Marie-Louise Asselin, West Virginia (Sr., 3.66, Biochemistry)
- Alex Becker, Tulsa (Sr., 3.69, Elementary Education)
- Nicole Blood, Oregon (Sr., 3.47, Journalism)
- Lauren Bonds, Kansas (Sr., 3.93, Political Science)
- Ashley Cattran, Dayton (Jr., 3.99, Pre-Medicine)
- Kristi Dahlheimer, North Dakota (Gr., 4.00, Physical Therapy)
- Evelien Dekkers, Florida (Sr., 3.84, Food Science & Human Nutrition)
- Megan Duwell, Minnesota (Sr., 3.86, Marketing & Operations Management)
- Bridget Franek, Penn State (Sr., 3.52, Kinesiology & Movement Science)
- Amanda Frohling, South Dakota State (Sr., 4.00, Biology & Pre-Physical Therapy)
- Shamai Larsen, Austin Peay (Sr., 4.00, Health & Human Performance)
- Allix Lee-Painter, Idaho (Sr., 3.86, English & Secondary Education)
- Brittany Morreale, Air Force (Sr., 3.77, Physics)
- Diana Norden, Campbell (Sr., 4.00, Chemistry)
- Terry Phillips, Missouri State (Jr., 4.00, Chemistry & Biochemistry)
- Annie Taft, Army (Sr., 3.97, Management)
2010 ESPN THE MAGAZINE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA THIRD TEAM
- Erin Bedell, Baylor (Sr., 3.68, Health Science)
- Alyssa Bradford, Valparaiso (Sr., 3.98, Secondary Education)
- Kaylyn Christopher, West Virginia (Jr., 3.94, Journalism & Philosophy)
- Brandi Gervais, Towson (Jr., 4.00, Pre-Dentistry)
- Eleni Kafourou, Boise State (Sr., 3.32, Civil Engineering)
- Shannon Leinert, Missouri (Sr., 4.00, Special Education)
- Patricia Mamona, Clemson (Sr., 3.47, Health Science)
- Dana Mecke, UT-San Antonio (Jr., 3.88, Mechanical Engineering)
- Kaitlyn Peale, Michigan (Jr., 3.91, Industrial & Operations Engineering)
- Kelly Phillips, Virginia Tech (Sr., 4.00, Biology)
- Wendi Robinson, Indiana (Gr., 3.90, Exercise Physiology)
- Erin Stratton, Utah State (Sr., 3.98, Exercise Science)
- Brittany Thune, Belmont (Sr., 3.95, Business Administration)
- Toni Whitfield, Southern Illinois (Sr., 4.00, Civil Engineering)
- Natalie Willer, Nebraska (Jr. 3.89, Biological)
Academic All-America of the Year: Phoebe Wright, Tennessee
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