2005 All-ACC Academic Women's Cross Country Team Announced
List includes 14 runners who earned NCAA All-Region honors and three All-Americans.



Feb. 1, 2006

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Eleven runners who earned All-Conference honors this past season secured spots on the 2005 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Women's Cross Country Team as announced today by Commissioner John D. Swofford.

To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during her academic career.

Runners earning All-Conference honors this past fall were Shannon Rowbury, Clara Horowitz, Whitney Anderson, Laura Stanley, Sally Meyerhoff, Elizabeth Wort and Natasha Roetter from Duke; NC State's Jemissa Hess and Magin Kebert; Annie Bersagel, Wake Forest and Laurel Burdick from Boston College.

In addition, 14 runners earned NCAA All-Region honors while three harriers, Horowitz, Bersagel, and Burdick, earned All-America honors at the NCAA Championship.

The 2005 All-ACC Academic Women's Cross Country team is as follows:

2005 All-ACC Academic Women's Cross Country Team

Semester Career
Name, Class, School GPA GPA Major
Whitney Anderson, Fr., Duke 3.25 3.25 Undeclared
Jennifer Barton, Sr., Clemson 4.00 3.91 Biological Sciences
Annie Bersagel, Sr., Wake Forest 4.00 3.94 Economics/Political Science
Laurel Burdick, So., Boston College 3.89 3.69 Elementary Education
Tasmin Fanning, Fr., Virginia Tech 3.26 3.26 Communications
Jemissa Hess, Jr., NC State 3.75 3.75 Art Applications
Clara Horowitz, Sr., Duke 3.50 3.10 Visual Arts
Laurel Jefferson, Jr., Maryland 3.80 3.88 English/French
Magin Kebert, So., NC State 3.67 3.80 Biological Sciences
Cori Koch, Sr., Maryland 3.40 3.13 Kinesiology
Nisha Kurian, So., Georgia Tech 4.00 3.69 Chemical Engineering
Nichole Lister, So., Boston College 3.48 3.48 Env. Geological Science
Sally Meyerhoff, Sr., Duke 3.42 3.29 History
Natasha Roetter, Sr. Duke 3.92 3.97 Political Science
Shannon Rowbury, Sr., Duke 3.85 3.83 English/Theatre Studies
Melanie Schultz, Sr., Miami 3.47 3.61 Marine Science-Biology
Nicole Schappert, Fr., Wake Forest 3.37 3.37 Undeclared
Michelle Sikes, Jr. Wake Forest 4.00 3.94 Mathematical Economics
Laura Stanley, Sr., Duke 3.92 3.24 Psychology
Brittany Tinsley, Fr., NC State 3.38 3.38 First Year College
Virginia Wheeler, Gr., NC State 3.56 3.56 Material Science/Engineering
Abigail Wilshire, Jr., Florida State 3.75 3.75 Meteorology
Elizabeth Wort, Sr., Duke 3.75 3.17 Psychology