University of Tennessee Athletics
T&F Trio Named Academic All-District
May 31, 2012 | Women's Track
May 31, 2012
2011-12 CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT 3 WOMEN'S DIVISION I TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY TEAM
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The University of Tennessee led all schools with three honorees Thursday, when the 2012 Capital One Academic All-District 3 Women's Track & Field and Cross Country Team was announced by CoSIDA, the College Sports Information Directors of America.
During his current tenure as the Director of Track & Field at UT, and including his time as the head coach of the women's program, J.J. Clark has had 16 individuals earn 26 total academic all-district awards in 10 seasons.
Among UT's SEC-leading total of three first-team honorees in 2012 were senior Chanelle Price (Easton, Pa./Easton Area), earning first-team accolades for the second straight season, senior Ellen Wortham (Maryville, Tenn./Maryville), a second-team choice in 2011, and sophomore Linda Hadfield (Yorkville, N.Y./New York Mills), a first-time member of the squad. All three also are qualifiers for the upcoming NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, June 6-9.
Price owns a 3.93 grade point average in journalism and electronic media and was both a first-team Capital One Academic All-American and SEC Track & Field Co-Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2011. The recipient of a 2012 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, she also is a three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic and SEC Academic Honor Roll selection. Price is an eight-time All-American on the oval and the winner of two NCAA championships and five SEC titles during her career. The six-time NCAA scorer will be in Des Moines next week to compete in the 800 meters, entering the meet with a time of two minutes, 2.64 seconds that ranks her third in the field.
Wortham, who possesses a 3.88 GPA in psychology, is the 2012 SEC Track & Field Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year and, like Price, the recipient of a 2012 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. A three-time USTFCCCA All-Academic and SEC Academic Honor Roll selection, Wortham also is eyeing next week's NCAA meet. The nine-time All-American currently ranks No. 2 in the NCAA and No. 16 in the world with a school-record time of 55.55 seconds that she recorded on May 13 to win her second-straight SEC title in the 400m hurdles. She remains undefeated in six races in 2012 in the 400 hurdles and has finished first in 14 of her past 15 races in that event. She'll also run on UT's 4x400m relay quartet in Des Moines.
Hadfield, who has maintained a 4.00 GPA in economics, is the 2012 Helen B. Watson Female Scholar of the Year for UT Athletics and received the 2011 James Snow Award, which goes to the outstanding academic Lady Vol freshman on the track & field team. A 2011 USTFCCCA All-Academic and SEC Academic Honor Roll member, Hadfield ranks third on UT's all-time outdoor performers list in the pole vault at 13 feet, 4 1/4 inches. That mark enabled her to finish fifth at the 2012 SEC Championships and follow up her sixth-place effort from 2011, when she set the UT freshman outdoor record and made the SEC Outdoor All-Freshman Team. Hadfield will take to the runway in Iowa for her first-ever NCAA Championship appearance.
