Potter named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District
Junior now eligible for Academic All-America honors

June 7, 2007
MARIETTA, Ohio — The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) released their 2007 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District track & field/cross country teams Thursday (June 7), and Marietta College junior Harrison Potter (Rochester, N.Y./Gates Chili) earned first team honors in District IV. Potter is now eligible for Academic All-America honors.

Sports Information Directors from the district (all NCAA Division II, III and NAIA schools in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama) nominate and vote on selections with first team all-district selections moving onto the national ballot. In order to qualify a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average and be a starter or key reserve.

Potter was also named an Academic All-OAC first team honoree this spring. The physics and mathematics major carried a 3.93 GPA into his sixth semester at Marietta. Potter, a distance runner, placed a team-best 78th at NCAA Cross Country Regional Meet—58 spots higher than last year—and took 33rd at OAC Cross Country Championships. He then finished seventh in the 3,000m Steeplechase at the OAC Outdoor Championships. When not running, Potter is active in the Society of Physics Students, MC^2 Club, Student-Athlete Advisory Council and Math Club.

The Academic All-America Teams program honors 816 male and female student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA (the College Sports Information Directors of America), a 2,000 member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her Sports Information Director. Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.

Junior Harrison Potter was named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District in 2007