Texas A&M-Corpus Christi's Shadrack
Songok was named the Capital One Southland Conference
Student-Athlete of the Year in Men's Outdoor Track and Field the
league announced on Thursday and was also named to the CoSIDA/ESPN
The Magazine District VI First Team in track and cross country
along with Brent Bartz.
For the women, Meghan Lemke was named to
Southland Conference's All-Academic Team in women's track and cross
country
Songok was named the Student-Athlete of the
Year in outdoor track completing a sweep of the league's
Student-Athlete of the Year honors in indoor and outdoor track and
cross country. He won both 1,500 and 5,000-meter runs at the
Southland Conference Outdoor Championships this May and was third
in the 5,000 at the NCAA Midwest Regional meet this past weekend.
He will defend his 10,000-meter title at the NCAA Outdoor Track
& Field Championships in
Des Moines, Iowa next week.
Earlier this year, Songok won the
5,000-meter run at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
and was seventh at the NCAA Cross Country Championships last
November after repeating as the conference and region champion. The
Kenyan has a 3.21 grade point average in chemistry.
For the second-straight year, Bartz from
Belton has been named to the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine District VI
First Team. A biology major, Bartz holds a 3.82 grade point
average. He finished eighth in the shot put with a mark of 15.32
meters (50'3-1/4") at the Southland Conference Indoor Track &
Field Championship before an injury ended his campaign.
Lemke was named to the Southland Conference
All-Academic team in women's cross country and track & field.
The junior from Tomahawk, Wisc., finished third in the 1,500 and
fourth in the 5,000-meters at the SLC Outdoor Championships. The
distance runner, maintaining a 3.51 GPA as health science major,
finished fourth in the final of the mile run at the SLC Indoor meet
and ninth at the 3,000-meter run.
2007-08
Southland Conference Men's Cross Country and Track and Field
All-Academic Team.
Name,
School
Class Hometown GPA
Major
Shadrack
Songok, Texas A&M-Corpus
Christi Senior Kapsabet, Kenya 3.215
Chemistry
Ewan Simpson,
Lamar Senior Kincardine,
Scotland 3.46 Exercise Science
Samuel Kosgei,
Lamar Soph. Kapchorwa,
Uganda 3.20 Health
ChadLeath, Northwestern
State Senior Henderson, TX
3.04 Health & Human Performance
Chris Pearson,
Northwestern State Junior Mount Vernon,
TX 3.82 Business Administration
Chris Cralle, Sam
Houston State Soph. College Station,
TX 3.28 History
Cory Roberts,
Southeastern Louisiana Soph. Meraux,
LA 3.84 Organismal Biology
Keith Mahipala,
Stephen F. Austin Junior Plano,
TX 3.624 Biology (Pre-Dental)
Chris Moody,
Stephen F. Austin Soph. White Oak,
TX 3.089 Kinesiology
Justin Reyes,
Stephen F. Austin Senior Richland
Springs, TX 3.08 Physics
Tommy Wolfe,
UTSA Junior
Raymondville, TX 3.30 Kinesiology
Luke Johnson,
UTSA Senior Amarillo,
TX 3.57 Kinesiology
2007-08
Southland Conference Women's Cross Country and Track and Field
All-Academic Team.
Name,
School
Class Hometown GPA
Major
Clerc Koenck,
Lamar Senior
Anacoco, LA 3.77 Exercise Science
Alison Holmes,
Northwestern State Senior DeRidder,
LA 3.60 Business Administration
Trecey Holmes,
Northwestern State Soph. Garland,
TX 3.91 Journalism
Amy Shackelford,
Stephen F. Austin Fresh. Port Noches,
TX 4.0 Kinesiology
Silent-Joy
Egboda-Waye, Stephen F. Austin Soph. Lancaster,
TX 3.185 Accounting
Leah Matthews,
Stephen F. Austin Senior Fort Worth,
TX 3.0 Kinesiology
Tabitha Riley,
Stephen F. Austin Soph. Carrolton,
TX 3.0 Interdisciplinary Studies
Kristi Hermes,
Sam Houston State Soph. Carrolton,
TX 3.64 Kinesiology
Tiana Lee, Sam
Houston State Junior Arlington,
TX 3.37 Health
Tiffany
Singleton, Sam Houston State Senior
Killeen, TX 3.0 Health
Jessica Jones,
UTSA Soph. Fresno,
TX 3.06 Pre-Business
Dana Mecke,
UTSA Soph.
Bulverde, TX 4.0 Engineering
Charlotte
Everhardt, Nicholls State Junior
Metairie, LA 3.84 Dietics
Marion Chebet,
Nicholls State Soph. Kapsabet,
Kenya 3.55 Accounting
DeAnn Washington,
McNeese State Soph. Milano,
TX 3.22 Nursing
Leonie
Ezegbunum, Southeastern
Louisiana Senior Nassau, Bahamas 3.75
Accounting
Meghan Lemke,
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Junior Tomahawk,
WI 3.51 (Undecided)
Tenley
Determan, Texas
State Senior College Station,
TX 3.72 Psychology
