WOMEN’S COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD: Bears’ Salamon honored for GPA

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HICKORY – Haylea Salamon, a junior from Canada who runs track and field and cross country for the Lenoir-Rhyne University women, has earned academic honors for the second consecutive season.

Salamon, who is from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America NCAA Division II second-team for women’s track and field and cross country, an LRU press release said.

CoSIDA is the College Sports Information Directors of America.

She is an exercise major carrying a grade point average of 3.93.

During the last indoor season, she was All-Southeast Region in the shot put and weight throw and set a school record of 40 feet, 1-inch in the shot put at the Mountaineer Open in Boone in mid-January.

In outdoor track and field, Salamon was the 2015 South Atlantic Conference (SAC) female Freshman of the Year. In 2016, she won the SAC Field Athlete of the Year for women.

She also holds a discus school record of 154-11 and has won the conference title in that event in two straight seasons.

Salamon was 12th in the discus at the NCAA Division II outdoor track and field championships in Allendale, Mich., in 2015.

Bears’ swimmers honored: The women’s swim team from Lenoir-Rhyne University has been recognized as a Scholar All-American team for the spring of 2017 by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).

The Bears had a collective grade point aveage of 3.38.

The CSCAA awards All-America status to teams with a grade point average of 3.00 or better for the spring semester.

The top GPAs in NCAA Division II were McKendree (women, 4.00) and Urbana (men, 3.69).

LRU’s women’s swim team begins its 2017-18 schedule on Sept. 29 with the annual Black and White Inter-squad meet.

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