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June 23, 2008
OXFORD, Ohio - Miami University junior cross country and track and field stand out Pat Sovacool has been named to the 2008 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American Second Team for his tremendous performance in the classroom and on the track and trails as a RedHawk.
Sovacool is majoring in zoology and carries a 3.60 grade point average through three years in Oxford.
Sovacool finished the 2007-08 year by competing in the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. The junior advanced to the finals of the 5,000 meters where he finished 16th. He earned his way into the championship field by taking fifth in the 5,000 at the NCAA Mideast Regional Championships at the University of Arkansas, earning all-region honors.
His personal best in the 5,000 meters came at the 114th Penn Relays in Philadelphia in April. Sovacool ran a 13:56.77 which ranks him fifth on the all-time performance list at Miami in that event.
The native of Lakewood, Ohio won both the 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters on the same day at the Mid-American Conference Championships at Bowling Green in May, earning the RedHawks 20 team points.
Sovacool also was an NCAA Championship participant in cross country, running at the national championships in Terre Haute, Ind. He won the first three races of his junior campaign and ended in fourth place at the MAC Championships at Central Michigan in November.
Appearing in national publications is becoming common for the St. Ignatius graduate. Sovacool appeared in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd on Oct. 22 after winning his third-straight race of the season and earned his Second-Team Academic All-American honors after being named First-Team Academic All-Region by ESPN The Magazine.
This academic year alone, Sovacool has earned two first-team All-MAC honors, earned two Academic All-MAC awards, and earned four MAC runner of the week awards.
To be eligible for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Region and All-American honors, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.
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