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Georgia’s Bridget Lyons Named Capital One Academic All-American
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ATHENS, Ga. --- Georgia’s Bridget Lyons has
been named to one of the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America Teams,
as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America
(CoSIDA).
Lyons, a Second Team selection, is one of only five runners from the
Southeastern Conference out of 45 on either the All-America First,
Second or Third Teams. The Evans, Ga., native is also one of only
two natives from the state of Georgia to be named to one of the three
All-America teams.
The former walk-on graduated from UGA with degrees in Biology and
Spanish in May 2010 after posting a cumulative GPA of 3.88.
Earlier this week Lyons was awarded a $7,500 NCAA Postgraduate
Scholarship to complement the $6,000 postgraduate scholarship that she
had already received for being the SEC’s Brad Davis Community
Service Leader of the Year Award.
Lyons, who competes at the USA Track & Field Championships in the
10,000-meter run at 10:15 p.m. ET in Eugene, Ore., on Thursday night,
was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and the Alpha Epsilon
Delta premedical honor society as well as being a Presidential Scholar
at Georgia. She was also a member of the National Society of
Collegiate Scholars and the Delta EpsilonIota academic honor society.
Already in 2011, she received the overall "Peach of an Athlete Award,"
given by the Atlanta area Boy Scout Council to standout
student-athletes participating in outstanding community service.
She also earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches
Association All-Academic Team honors in 2010.
On the track, Lyons completed her collegiate career by racing in the
10,000 finals at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa,
during the second week in June. She qualified for nationals at the NCAA
East Preliminary Round with a runner-up finish on May 26 to advance to
her second straight NCAA meet.
The former walk-on finished second in both the 5000 and 10,000 finals
at the 2011 SEC Outdoor Championships in Athens and was Georgia's
high-point scorer with 16 points at the meet.
Lyons finished her career ranked second on Georgia's all-time top-10
list in the 10,000 (33:31.14) and third in the UGA record books in the
outdoor 5000 (16:23.32). She captured an SEC title with a win in
the 10,000 and was Georgia's top scorer (14 points) at the 2010 SEC
Outdoor Championships. Lyons also had arunner-up finish in the
5000 meters at the 2010 SEC Indoors as well.
A co-captain on the 2009 Lady Bulldog cross country team, Lyons
deferred dental school in 2011 in order to run another year for Georgia.
The daughter of Jill Miller and Mike Lyons, she was the student-athlete
representative to the UGA Athletic Association Board of Directors.
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