It was announced earlier today that Natalie Calderon ’08 (Pasadena, CA) landed on the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America First Team for Track & Field and Cross Country in the College Division.

This marks Calderon’s fourth CoSIDA award, following two All-District and two All-American nods. She recently graduated from the University of Redlands with a 3.797 cumulative GPA as a Communicative Disorders major. She looks forward to completing her master’s in Audiology with the help of a recently-awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. This season, she helped the Bulldog women’s track & field team win the 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.

A committee of CoSIDA members determines the All-American teams from the All-District First Team honorees.