NEW ORLEANS — A total of 11 members of the Adams State College women’s track and field program have earned a spot on the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s Division II All-Academic Team for the 2010 season, the organization announced Wednesday.

To be eligible for the honor, a student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 and have met the automatic or provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA Division II Indoor or Outdoor Championships in his or her event sometime during the 2010 season. A total of 276 athletes from 72 different institutions composed the group. Sixteen athletes, including Adams State’s Kristen McGlynn (Bailey, Colo.), maintain perfect 4.0 GPA’s.

The Grizzlies’ total of 11 was the fourth highest from across the entire nation, trailing only Grand Valley State (Mich.), Shippensburg (Pa.) and Slippery Rock (Pa.), who had 12 selections each.

The Grizzlies’ other selections were Jessica Adams (Cimarron, N.M.), Jenna Bohnen (Erie, Colo.), Janette Cary (McCarroll) (La Jara, Colo.), Amanda Doyle (Gylling) (La Jara, Colo.), Lindsey Grasmick (Fowler, Colo.), Renee Harris (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Addison LeMaster (Tulia, Texas), Cassie Mitchell (Tustin, Calif.), Alicia Nelson (Craig, Colo.) and Vanessa Roy (Pont Sainte Maxence, France).

Doyle has now earned the honor in each of the last four years while Adams and Cary have earned it three times each. Grasmick, Harris and Roy are also repeat selections.

Cary, LeMaster, Mitchell, Nelson and Roy had all earned similar honors from the organization during the 2009 cross country season as well.

The male Scholar Athletes of the Year in Division II, along with additional individuals given All_Academic status, will be released Friday while those institutions given All_Academic Team status will be named on Monday, August 2 (men) and Tuesday, August 3 (women).