Texas Tech University Athletics
Morgan Receives Big 12 Academic Achievement Award
March 01, 2016 | Track and Field
Andi Morgan earned a ninth-place finish in the pentathlon at the Big 12 Indoor Championships last weekend.
March 1, 2016
LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas Tech track & field junior Andi Morgan has been awarded the 2016 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, the conference announced Tuesday.
Congrats to Andi Morgan on earning the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award! https://t.co/QtvAhplJnY #WreckEm pic.twitter.com/ZVqgGg5lmg
- TTU Track & Field/XC (@TTU_TF_XC) March 1, 2016
A native of Sunnyvale, Texas, Morgan has recorded 13 personal-bests during the 2016 indoor season, including a PR in every event of the pentathlon last weekend at the Big 12 Indoor Championships. Her total of 3,541 points in the pentathlon shattered her previous best by nearly a hundred points and earned her a ninth-place finish.
Morgan and the women's team put together a fourth-place team finish at the conference championships in Ames, Iowa, last weekend.
In order to be eligible for the accolade, student-athletes must have lettered at least once in their career while maintaining residence at their institution for at least one academic year. The honoree, which can only be recognized once, should have 100 hours of earned credit with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.80 at the time of the nomination.
The award is in memory of Lage, who served as the Oklahoma State faculty athletics representative with the NCAA and the Big Eight/Big 12 Conference from 1983 until his death in 200. He was the chairman on three occasions (1985-86, 93-94 and 2003-04).
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