{"id":28276,"date":"2014-01-24T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=28276"},"modified":"2014-01-22T14:09:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T19:09:53","slug":"five-runners-recognized-with-womens-cross-country-academic-all-mac-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_24_2014\/five-runners-recognized-with-womens-cross-country-academic-all-mac-honors","title":{"rendered":"Five runners recognized with women&#8217;s cross country academic all-MAC honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Toledo women\u2019s cross country runners have been selected to the 2013 Academic All-Mid-American Conference Team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/thumb-rocket-color-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/thumb-rocket-color-logo.jpg\" alt=\"thumb-rocket-color-logo\" width=\"216\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18020\" \/><\/a>Juniors Mackenzie Chojnacky, Megan Gaysunas, Brooke Tullis, Liz Weiler and Megan Wright each earned the recognition for their efforts inside and outside the classroom.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The Rockets and Ohio led the league with five runners appearing on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Chojnacky finished 14th at the MAC Championship, earning her second-team all-league honors. She also placed 52nd of 227 runners at the NCAA Regional meet. Chojnacky competes on the UT indoor and outdoor track team and has a cumulative 3.52 grade-point average in exercise science.<\/p>\n<p>Gaysunas was a top-four finisher for the Rockets in five different meets, including an 11th-place finish overall at the MAC Championship. Gaysunas holds a 3.76 cumulative grade-point average in marketing, and is a part of the UT indoor and outdoor track team.<\/p>\n<p>Tullis was the Rockets\u2019 top performer in 2013, leading UT in five different races, including a fourth-place finish at the MAC Championship. A first-team All-MAC runner for the second consecutive year, she placed 27th of 227 runners at the NCAA Regionals. Tullis has accumulated a 3.40 grade-point average in nursing and also competes on the UT indoor and outdoor track team.<\/p>\n<p>Weiler finished 13th at the MAC Championship, earning second-team all-conference honors. It was the second straight year she made an All-MAC team after a first-team all-conference selection in 2012. Weiler is competing with the UT indoor and outdoor track team and holds a 3.57 grade-point average in marketing and sales.<\/p>\n<p>Wright also was a first-team all-conference performer for the Rockets, placing sixth at the MAC Championship. It is her second straight Academic All-MAC selection after earning the honor in 2012 as well. Wright owns a 3.42 grade-point average in exercise science and is a part of the UT indoor and outdoor track team.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets finished second behind Miami at the MAC Championship in November and placed eighth at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s cross country teammates Mackenzie Chojnacky, Megan Gaysunas, Brooke Tullis, Liz Weiler and Megan Wright have been named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}