Kelly Brennan of Baldwin Wallace University Earns USTFCCCA All-Academic Honor

2017 Jul 31

Baldwin Wallace University track and field student-athlete Kelly Brennan (Akron/Walsh Jesuit High School) has been honored by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCA) as an All-Academic Individual.

The BW men's team had two of the 402 student-athletes honored while the the Yellow Jacket women's squad had three of the 608 student-athletes honored.

To qualify for the USTFCCA All-Academic honors, the student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative GPA of 3.25 or higher and must have met at least one of the follow athletic standards:

• Competed in an NCAA Indoor or Outdoor Championship
• Finished the regular season ranked in the national top-50 in an individual event or ranked in the national top-35 in a relay event on of the official NCAA Descending Order List

"We are very proud of these men and women," stated Coordinator of Cross Country/Track & Field and Head Track & Field Coach Matthew Cole. "They work extremely hard in the class room as well as in their own events to earn this honor."

Brennan, a USTFCCCA All-Great Lakes Region indoors selection in 800-meter run and the 1-mile run, carries a 3.980 grade point average in accounting and finance. She is a Dean's List student, a Jacket Scholar and a member of the Alpha Lambda and Chi Sigma Alpha honoraries. Brennan, the All-Ohio outdoor champion in the 1,500-meter run, set the school-record in the 800-meter run this spring with a time of 2:12.02. She is a two-time All-OAC outdoor performer and a two-time All-OAC performer in cross country. Brennan earned the Academic Excellence Award this fall for the highest GPA on the cross country team.