Dewart Named to Academic All-America Team
ITHACA, N.Y. – Junior Emma Dewart (Barker/Barker) of the Ithaca College women’s track & field team has been named to the College Division Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country All-America Team. The lone Empire 8 athlete honored, Dewart was a third-team selection on the 45-member team.
Dewart advanced to the ballot for academic all-America honors after being voted to the District I first team.
An eight-time all-American and the program’s most decorated athlete, Dewart won the indoor pentathlon with 3,535 points to become the Bombers’ second women’s track & field athlete to win a national championship in program history. She tallied four outdoor all-America finishes helping the Bombers to a program-best sixth-place finish. Dewart placed second in the heptathlon, third in the open long jump, fourth in the open high jump and eighth in the open 100-meter hurdles at the national meet.
Dewart currently holds eight school records, five of which she set or re-set during the 2010-11 campaign. She was named Atlantic Region Field Athlete of the Year and earned Empire 8 Field Athlete of the Meet honors during both the indoor and outdoor seasons. Indoor she was named Empire 8 Field Athlete of the Year, while outdoors she also earned NYSCTC Outdoor Field Athlete of the Meet accolades.
A total of 77 Ithaca athletes have earned academic all-America honors, including at least one for each of the past 15 years (44 Bombers, representing 15 sports, have been recognized in that span). There have been six academic all-Americans from Ithaca in 2010-11 (graduate student David Ahonen earned second-team honors in both football and baseball, junior Seth Ecker and senior Jeremy Stierly earned first-team honors in wrestling and graduate student William Way earned third-team recognition in track & field/cross country).
Dewart is the 12th women’s track & field/cross country academic all-American in program history and the first since Amanda Laytham was named to the first team in 2003-04.
The College Division Academic All-America Team honors student-athletes from NCAA Division II and III and NAIA Division II schools.