BATON ROUGE — In what has become an annual event, members of the LSU track and field teams were honored for their performance in the classroom once again at the 2009 Tiger Athletic Foundation Academic Excellence Gala held at the LSU Stadium Club on Sunday evening.
Senior middle distance runner Lindsay Day was honored for her commitment to excellence both on and off the track as this year’s LSU Female Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Day, a native of Springfield, La., has maintained a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade-point average in kinesiology with a concentration in human movement during her four-year career running for the Lady Tigers. She is already set to attend physical therapy school in the fall.
Day was a key contributor to the Lady Tigers’ victory at the SEC Indoor Championships in 2008 as she scored three points for the team with a sixth-place finish in the 800 meters with a personal best time of 2 minutes, 9.32 seconds. She has lettered in each of her three seasons at LSU and will compete in 2009 as one of the team’s top 800-meter runners once again.
In addition, Day joined senior Anna Lyons among the eight recipients of this year’s Wally Pontiff Jr. Academic Excellence Award.
Lyons, a javelin thrower from Ruston, La., also carries a 4.0 GPA while pursuing a degree in kinesiology. She is a three-time NCAA Mideast Regional participant in the javelin and has scored in the event at the conference level in each of the last two seasons as the Lady Tigers captured back-to-back team titles in 2007 and 2008.
Lyons has earned ESPN The Magazine Second-Team Academic All-District VI honors during the three seasons in which she has been a member of the LSU track and field program.
The Tiger Athletic Foundation also recognized 32 track and field athletes as recipients of the LSU Director’s Cup and 28 as members of the SEC Academic Honor Roll in 2008 for their pursuit of excellence in the classroom for the 2007-08 academic year. All honors awarded to LSU student-athletes at Sunday’s gala were based on performance both on and off the track in 2007-08.
LSU Track & Field Academic Award Winners
LSU Female Scholar Athlete of the Year
Lindsay Day
Wally Pontiff, Jr. Academic Excellence Award
Lindsay Day
Anna Lyons
LSU Scholar Athlete Director’s Cup
Kate Accardo
Jeff Adolph
Harold Boutte
Angel Boyd
Megan Broussard
Richard Chautin
Lindsay Day
Mark DeBlanc
Ken Ehrhardt
Ryan Fontenot
Rabun Fox
Drew Haro
Samantha Henry
John Lopez
Anna Lyons
Jessica Ohanaja
Christina Porter
Erik Powell
James Presley
Chad Radgowski
Katelyn Rodrigue
Kyle Rose
Ross Roubion
Lauren Saucier
Sean Swanner
Mallory Thompson
Lindsey Turner
Reuben Twijukye
Erin Vandivort
Adam Wilcox
Lauren Ybarzabal
Christy Zirkle
SEC Academic Honor Roll
Kate Accardo
Jeff Adolph
Harold Boutte
Angel Boyd
Megan Broussard
Katie Dawson
Lindsay Day
Michael Florek
Ryan Fontenot
Rabun Fox
Drew Haro
Samantha Henry
Andrea Linton
Anna Lyons
Jessica Ohanaja
Christina Porter
Erik Powell
James Presley
Chad Radgowski
Katelyn Rodrigue
Kyle Rose
Ross Roubion
Alan Sticker
Mallory Thompson
Reuben Twijukye
Erin Vandivort
Adam Wilcox
Christy Zirkle