June 23, 2008
2009 Season - ESPN the Magazine names Ted McMillan a first team Academic All-America; Jim Beatty earns second team honors
Rock Island, Ill. – ESPN the Magazine has announced its 2008 Academic All-America teams for track & field and cross country and Augustana is well represented in the college division. Junior Ted McMillan (Erie HS, Cordova, Ill.) was named to the first team while senior Jim Beatty (Antioch HS, Antioch, Ill.) and junior Keli Coleman (Carmel HS, Grayslake, Ill.) were second team selections.
McMillan, a chemistry major, carries a 3.52 grade point average and was the Augustana men’s winner of the Jack Swartz Award for the 2008 spring season. Heading into his senior year, he’s already a three-time team MVP, 12-time CCIW champion, 10-time All-American, and two-time national champion, having won the 2007 outdoor titles in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles and high jump. McMillan also holds Augustana school records in the 55 meter hurdles (:07.69) indoors and the 110 (:14.55) and 400 meter hurdles (:51.21) outdoors. He qualified for the 2008 national outdoor meet in five events including the decathlon, with a score of 6,598 points (third highest in school history), although he chose not to compete in the event. He is one of just two Vikings athletes ever to clear 7’0” in the high jump as well.
Beatty, who graduated this spring with a degree in history, had a 3.98 GPA. He was the winner of Augustana’s Knut Erickson Award, given to the senior letter winner with the highest cumulative GPA in the entire athletic department. He was also the Augustana men’s recipient of the CCIW’s Jack Swartz Award for the 2008 winter season. He won the 5000 meters at the 2007 Prairie Fire Relays and took third place in the mile at Illinois Wesleyan’s Bob Keck Invitational during the 2008 indoor season. He also finished eighth in the mile with a time of 4:22.46 at the 2008 CCIW indoor meet. During the outdoor season, he ran a leg on the 4x800 relay that took second at Augustana’s Meet of Champions, and ran with the distance medley relay team that finished 16th at the Drake Relays as well.
Coleman carries a 3.80 GPA in biology/pre-med. She was Augustana’s women’s Jack Swartz recipient for the 2008 winter season. Through her first three seasons, she’s dominated the sprint events in the CCIW, winning the conference every year in the 55 meters indoors and 100 meters outdoors. The two-time All-American also holds school records for the 100 meters (:11.96) outdoors and 55 (:07.08), 60 (:07.81), and 200 meters (:25.68) indoors.
McMillan, Beatty and Coleman bring to 125 the number of Academic All-America selections from Augustana. The school ranks fifth among all colleges and universities in the nation in Academic All-America selections since the award was established in 1952.
ALL-TIME ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS
1. Nebraska, University of
2. Notre Dame, University of
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. Penn State University
5. Augustana College (Ill.)
6. Bucknell University
7. Stanford University
8. Illinois Wesleyan University
9. California-Los Angeles, University of (UCLA)
10. Emory University
2008 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America®
College Division Men's Track & Field/Cross Country Team
FIRST TEAM
Name School Dist. Yr. Hometown GPA Major(s)
Steve Blum U.S. COAST GUARD ACADEMY I Sr. Farmington, Conn. 3.42 Civil engineering
Aaron Braun ADAMS STATE VII Jr. Fort Collins, Colo. 3.76 Math education
Chris Erichsen SAINT JOHN’S (MN) V Sr. Spring Valley, Minn. 3.79 Economics
Matt Gersick ADAMS STATE VII Jr. Pueblo West, Colo. 3.86 Human performance & PE, physics
Brian Harvey CARNEGIE MELLON II Jr. Ellicott City, Md. 3.96 Mechanical and biomedical eng.
Michael Hoffman STEVENS INST. TECH. II Sr. Franklin Township, N.J. 3.98 Biomedical engineering
Tony Kilburg WISCONSIN-PLATTEVILLE V Jr. Bellevue, Iowa 3.89 Engineering physics and math
Evan Knight NEBRASKA WESLEYAN VII Sr. Keystone, Neb. 3.99 History, Spanish
Ted McMillan AUGUSTANA (IL) V Jr. Cordova, Ill. 3.52 Chemistry
Fritz Nugent REDLANDS VIII Gr. Tinley Park, Ill. 3.66 Studio art, higher education
Thomas Reives ROSE-HULMAN V Sr. Indianapolis, Ind. 3.98 Mechanical engineering
Zach Rodgers CHICAGO V Sr. Nashville, Tenn. 3.96 Biology, chemistry, physics
Ben Spaun WHITWORTH VIII Sr. Wenatchee, Wash. 3.99 Physics, math
P.J. Theisen ST. THOMAS (MN) V Sr. New Prague, Minn. 3.93 Accounting
Justin Walters MUSKINGUM IV Sr. Pickerington, Ohio 4.00 Economics, education
Academic All-America® of the Year: Fritz Nugent, Redlands
SECOND TEAM
Michael Barnes DENISON IV Jr. Gates Mills, Ohio 3.84 Economics
Jim Beatty AUGUSTANA (IL) V Sr. Antioch, Ill. 3.98 History
Tom Brower WASHINGTON & LEE III Sr. Syracuse, N.Y. 3.99 Politics
Eric Buss SAINT JOHN’S (MN) V Jr. Coon Rapids, Minn. 3.75 Mathematics, physics
Derek Carson NEBRASKA WESLEYAN VII Jr. Lincoln, Neb. 3.86 History
R. J. Cowan TEXAS-TYLER VI Jr. Whitehouse, Texas 3.79 Health & kinesiology
Jonathan Erickson DUBUQUE VII Sr. Pella, Iowa 3.90 Flight
Alexander Grout ONEONTA STATE I Sr. Clifton Park, N.Y. 3.76 Music industry
Jordan Henry MISSOURI SCIENCE & TECH. VII Jr. St. Charles, Mo. 3.86 Electrical engineering
John Hoffman STEVENS INST. TECH. II Sr. Franklin Township, N.J. 3.95 Biomedical engineering
Drew Hood GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS V Sr. Mankato, Minn. 3.93 Economics
Sam Johnson WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE V Jr. Deer Park, Wis. 3.94 Physics
Will Koeppel FLORIDA SOUTHERN III Sr. Lakeland, Fla. 3.96 Biology
Kyle Steiner WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT V Sr. Grafton, WI 3.79 Biology
Burns Stephen ROCHESTER INST. TECH. I Sr. Newmarket, Ontario 3.82 Finance
John Ybarra ADAMS STATE VII Gr. Holland, Mich. 3.91 Human performance & PE
