FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
S-103-02-03
Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Elizabethtown College's Dustin Scott, Sean Mulcahy and Steve Sanko Named to Verizon Academic All-District Track/Cross Country Team

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Three Elizabethtown College student-athletes, recent alumnus Dustin Scott (Honey Brook, PA/Twin Valley), rising senior Sean Mulcahy (Towanda, PA/Towanda), and rising junior Steve Sanko (Hazleton, PA/Bishop Hafey), have been named to the Verizon Academic All-District II College Division Men's Track & Field/Cross Country Second Team for the 2002-03 academic year.

By the time he graduated in May, Scott, a psychology major with a minor in business administration, had become the most decorated athlete in the history of the Etown cross country and track & field programs. In track & field, his five career gold medals and ten total medals at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships are program records. He was also a provisional NCAA Championship qualifier in both the outdoor 5000m and the 3000m steeplechase.

In cross country, Scott became Etown's first All-American in 2001 by finishing in 14th place at the NCAA Division III Championship. In 2002, he won the MAC individual championship in cross country, was named the MAC Runner of the Year, and he became the first Blue Jay to win the Mideast Regional Championship race and be named the Mideast Region's Runner of the Year. He was an All-MAC runner all four years of his collegiate career, and he was an all-region runner three times.

Mulcahy, an accounting major at Elizabethtown College, is the men's track & field program record holder in both the indoor and outdoor 800m. He has also compiled five total medals at the MAC track & field championships in three years, including one gold and four silver medals. His four career silver medals is also an Etown track & field record.

In cross country, Mulcahy is a two-time All-MAC runner, earning a spot on the conference's second team in 2000 and the first team with a 10th place finish at the MAC cross country championship race in 2002.

Sanko, who is majoring in computer engineering at Elizabethtown College, holds the Etown men's track & field records in the indoor 1500m, 3000m and 5000m. He was an NCAA Championship provisional qualifier in the indoor 5000m in 2003, and he has totaled five MAC track & field championship medals - three gold and two bronze - in the past two years.

In cross country, Sanko has twice earned All-Mideast Region honors, and he has been a first team All-MAC runner both years of his collegiate career. He finished third overall in the conference in 2002.

In 2002, the Elizabethtown College men's cross country team won its fourth consecutive MAC championship and its first Mideast Regional championship. The team placed 15th in the nation at the NCAA Division III championship meet, and it posted the highest team cumulative grade point average in all of Division III according to the NCAA cross country coaches. The Elizabethtown men's track and field team won its first MAC Indoor Championship in 2003, and the team finished fourth in the conference at the 2003 MAC Outdoor Championships.

To be nominated for the Verizon Academic All-America program, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.2 or higher cumulative grade-point average and be a starter or a significant reserve. The teams are selected by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

The District II College Division consists of all non-NCAA Division I colleges and universities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.