It was announced earlier today that senior Natalie Calderon
(Pasadena, CA) and graduate student Fritz Nugent (Tinley Park, IL)
landed on the College Sports Information Directors of America
(CoSIDA) Academic All-District First Team for Track & Field and
Cross Country.
Calderon recently graduated from the University of Redlands with a
3.797 cumulative GPA as a Communicative Disorders major. This
season, she helped the Bulldog women’s track & field team
win the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
(SCIAC) Championship for the first time since 1978. This
Dean’s List member alone accounted for 68 of Redlands’
131 points by winning the Triple Jump, Long Jump, 100m Dash, 200m
Dash, and 100m Hurdles, and contributing to the first-place showing
of the 4x400m Relay and the second-place finish of the 4x100m
Relay. She was named the SCIAC Track & Field Female Athlete of
the Year for the second-consecutive season and later was crowned
the Redlands Frank Serrao Senior Female Student-Athlete of the
Year. In addition to owning the school records in the Long Jump and
Triple Jump, she won the 2008 NCAA Championships in both events,
earning back-to-back titles in the Long Jump. Last season, she
earned CoSIDA Academic All-District and All-American honors.
Nugent earns his fifth CoSIDA Academic award of his career, which
includes three All-District and two All-American honors. He
currently holds a 3.95 cumulative GPA through the School of
Education, in which he is pursuing a Master of Arts in Higher
Education. In 2006, he completed his Bachelor of Arts with a 3.66
GPA as a Studio Arts major. This season, he helped the Bulldog men
take second in the conference by earning All-SCIAC honors in the
400m Hurdles, High Jump, Long Jump and as a member of the 4x100m
Relay. He captured the second NCAA Championship of his career by
winning the Long Jump with a leap of 23’ 6 ¾”.
Last season, he won the NCAA Decathlon Championship with a
school-record total of 7,199 points.
Both of these student-athletes have applied for the prestigious
NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
The members of CoSIDA nominate and vote on the Academic
All-District teams, with the First Team honorees moving onto the
national ballot for possible Academic All-American recognition.