Moersdorf Named Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year

BOULDER, Colo. – Anneke Moersdorf opened Saturday at the Pac-12 Championships by making a little history as Oregon State's first Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year in track and field.

The annual honor recognizes both athletic and academic achievement among Pac-12 athletes in each sport.

Moersdorf maintains a 3.98 GPA as a Kinesiology major with an option in Pre-Therapy and Allied Health. In six opportunities to make the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll, Moersdorf made all six. The senior entered the conference championship weekend ranked 16th in the nation in the heptathlon, within the top-24 that advance to the national championship meet.

Athletically, Moersdorf entered the weekend as the Oregon State school record holder in Triple Jump (Indoor & Outdoor), Long Jump (Outdoor), 4x400 Relay (Outdoor) and Heptathlon. She also ranks among school top 10 list in 100m Hurdles, Long Jump (Indoor), 60m Hurdles and the Pentathlon.

Last season, she finished fifth in the Pac-12 in the heptathlon and eighth in the long jump, making NCAA West Prelims in the latter and just missing the national meet in the multis.

Moersdorf opens day two of the heptathlon with the long jump at 12 p.m. PT. She is in fifth place entering the day with 3,338 points, ahead the day-one mark from her school-record mark from last season's Pac-12 Championships.

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