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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - Illinois Wesleyan sophomore Elise Anderson was one of 170 student-athletes from 82 institutions to earn 2010 Division III All-Academic Cross Country status by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or greater through the most-recent semester and placed in the top 35 at the NCAA Regional Championships.
Scholar-athletes are determined from among those who earned All-Academic status and placed highest individually at the most recent NCAA Championships.

Anderson (Wheaton, Ill., Wheaton Warrenville South HS) has a 3.79 grade-point average as an elementary education major at IWU.
She was Illinois Wesleyan's top performer in the 6K NCAA Division III regional race with a time of 22:30.6 to finish 32nd in a field of 263 women and finished fifth in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin championship race with a time of 22:55.5.

Williams's Jennifer Gossels was named the USTFCCCA NCAA Division III Women's Scholar Athlete of the Year for the 2010 cross country season. Gossels was the second-place individual finisher at the 2010 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships in November and has a 4.00 cumulative GPA as a mathematics/computer science major.

Luther and Calvin led the country with six representatives on the list apiece. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Emory followed with five each. The University Athletic Association (UAA) led all conferences with 16 All-Academic nods while the SCIAC followed with 14.