BOWLING GREEN, Ky. WKU’s Katie Lever has been named the Conference USA Women’s Cross Country Scholar Athlete of the Year, league commissioner Britton Banowsky announced Thursday afternoon.
The C-USA Faculty Athletic Representatives from each institution determined each conference sport’s award winner, who were recognized for their academic achievement, athletic accomplishments and service.
Lever has continually been a model student-athlete at WKU with her work in the community, her results in the classroom and in the field of competition. The rising senior was named as WKU’s C-USA Winter Spirit of Service honoree in April and also earned the 2014 WKU Outreach-Service Award for exemplifying sportsmanship and character and being actively involved in the community at the annual WKU Athletics Banquet.
The Elizabethtown, Kentucky, native is a two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic selection and was a 2014 Cross Country C-USA All-Academic honoree last fall. Lever has a perfect cumulative GPA of 4.0 through six completed semesters as a communication studies major.
In the field of competition, Lever was WKU’s top finisher in all six cross country races and finished seventh at the C-USA Championships to secure First Team All-Conference honors. Additionally, she finished third in the 5,000-meter run at the C-USA Indoor Championships to garner all-conference accolades. Lever has earned a combined seven all-conference honors spanning cross country, and indoor and outdoor track seasons since 2013.
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