Kahovec Earns National all-Academic Honor

NEW ORLEANS, La. - Toccoa Kahovec of the Cal Lutheran women's cross country team was named to the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) all-Academic Team on Monday.

Official Release: USTFCCCA NCAA Division III

Scholar Athletes are determined from among those who earned All-Academic status and placed highest individually at the most recent NCAA Championships.

Kahovec, a junior from Saugus, Calif. is well-known on and off the courses and tracks on a national level after receiving this same honor last year. She is one of 170 NCAA Division III female student-athletes to earn recognition in 2010.

On the courses this season she earned her first trip to the NCAA National Championships this season where she finished 115th overall. Kahovec has continued to improve during her three seasons on the Regals squad finishing 14th, ninth and fourth at the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Championship meet, respectively.

Jennifer Gossels of Williams College was named the Women's Scholar Athlete of the Year. She currently maintains a 4.0 grade point average as a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics, and finished second at the national championships this past season.