CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. ? Junior pole-vaulter Carrie Burggraf, of the Austin Peay State University track and field team, has been named second-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America, presented by CoSIDA. She becomes the 22nd Austin Peay student-athlete to receive Academic All-America recognition.

Burggraf also becomes the first Austin Peay student-athlete since 2006 to receive Academic All-America recognition. Adonia Bivens, of the women's soccer team, received second-team recognition that season while Zac Schlader, of the men's basketball team, received third-team honors. Earlier this month, Burggraf received her second-straight first-team Academic All-District IV honor.

Burggraf was ranked 18th at NCAA Track and Field Midwest Regional, May 29, with her OVC and school record jump of 3.96 meters (13-00.00) at the Cedarville Invitational, May 8. Burggraf posted a height of 3.81m (12-06.00) to finish 18th.

She also recently was awarded the Ohio Valley Conference's Steve Hamilton Sportsmanship Award.An OVC Medal of Honor recipient and Commissioner's Honor Roll selection, she was one of just six OVC Scholar-Athletes this past Fall. With her 4.00 GPA as a political science major with a minor in history and English writing, Burggraf has been named to the Austin Peay President's List and Athletics Directors Honor Roll every semester of her college career.

Burggraf recently was named APSU's co-recipient of Scholar-Athlete Award for owning APSU's highest grade-point average. She also was named co-recipient of the Perkins Freeman/Governors Club Academic Achievement Scholarship for owning the highest GPA (4.0) for a rising senior. She is an ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America nominee after earning Academic All-District a year ago, she twice has been named to the OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll. She also is a United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic selection. She also was a “Red Mud Review” poetry prize winner, including for best poem.

For being in the Top 15% of her class, Burggraf is a member of Gamma Beta Phi, as well as being in the Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society and the Founder's Circle of the Pre-Law Society. She is also in the History Club, a member of the Campus Safety Committee and served as a Disability Services note-taker. Last summer Burggraf was chosen for the Peace Program Internship at the Jimmy Carter Center in Atlanta, which is considered one of the “Top 109 Internships in the United States” by the Princeton Review. While there, she edited and compiled a weekly 20-30 page weekly “Peace Program Update.” She also monitored Ghana and Nigeria news and prepared political updates for Ghana Briefing Book in preparation for registration and election process

During the year Burggraf captured both the OVC Indoor and Outdoor Championship in the pole vault, marking the second straight season she had claimed the Outdoor crown. During this year's Indoor Championship, she vaulted 12 feet, breaking the Austin Peay record and tying the OVC mark. At the Outdoor Meet Burggraf broke her own OVC record in winning the championship by nearly a foot. She recently set the OVC outdoor record (13 feet) recently at a meet in Ohio.

She also was a tutor at a local high school, for a program that prepares students for college eligibility and success, as well as working with the Special Olympics and the Austin Peay “Right to Read” program at local elementary schools.

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