CoSIDA Release

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Senior Bryan Beegle was selected to the 2010-11 Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District Men's Track & Field/Cross Country First Team for the College Division of District 2, which encompasses all Division II, Division III, NAIA and junior colleges in the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.

By virtue of his selection to the First Team, Beegle will now advance to the national Academic All-America ballot.

Beegle is a criminal justice major who graduated in May with a 3.80 grade-point average. Earlier this year, Beegle became the first men's indoor track athlete in school history to receive a PSAC Winter Top 10 award. Last year, Beegle was a CoSIDA Academic All-District Second Team award winner.

During the 2011 indoor track season, Beegle ran an unforgettable anchor leg on the Shippensburg distance medley relay squad that won a Division II national championship before individually placing second in the 5K to earn his first career individual All-America citation.

The DMR championship was not only SU's first national championship relay squad in school history, but it was also the first relay squad to ever achieve All-America honors. Individually, Beegle became the fourth SU indoor All-American in the 5K.

At the indoor conference championships, Beegle produced All-PSAC performances in mile and 3K with second-place finishes while running on the DMR squad that won a league title.

During the regular season, Beegle also broke the 1K school record at the Bucknell Heptagonal. His times in the mile and the 5K resulted in All-Region accolades from the USTFCCCA.

As a cross country runner, Beegle was instrumental in the Raiders winning their first PSAC championship in school history. During the regular season he achieved a sensational 8K time of 24:34 on the E.P. 'Tom' Sawyer Park course that later hosted the national championships. Beegle finished third at the PSAC meet and sixth at the regional meet with a 10K time of 31:48 before placing 67th at the Division II National Championships in December.

In his track career, Beegle is a 5-time NCAA indoor provisional qualifier and a 2-time NCAA outdoor provisional qualifier. He is a 13-time PSAC placewinner, 9-time All-PSAC award winner and a 4-time PSAC champion. He was named the 2009 PSAC Indoor Meet co-MVP along with East Stroudsburg's Chris Reddick.

Beegle has exhausted his eligibility as a cross country athlete but still has one season remaining in which he can compete in both indoor track & field and outdoor track & field. He redshirted indoors in 2007-08 and outdoors in 2008-09.

SU had a total of four athletes receive academic all-district accolades for track & field/cross country: Beegle, Stephen Schelander (second team), Neely Spence (women's first team) and Erica Hess (women's first team).

2010-11 Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District Award Winners

Football
Riley Bowen (Second Team; LB)

Women's Soccer
Alison Dowdrick (Second Team)

Women's At-Large
Amy Fisher (First Team; swimming)
Kristen Brooks (First Team; field hockey)

Men's Track & Field/Cross Country
Bryan Beegle (First Team)
Stephen Schelander (Second Team)

Women's Track & Field/Cross Country
Neely Spence (First Team)
Erica Hess (First Team)