June 24, 2006

BLACKSBURG - Former Virginia Tech track & field standout Gunild Kreb has been named to the 2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Team, as announced by CoSIDA. The senior from Winterbach, Germany, was named to the second team for the University Division.

This year, Kreb was an NCAA qualifier in the pentathlon and heptathlon. She won the ACC Championships in the pentathlon (a top-five point total in school history) and was fourth at the ACC Championships in the heptathlon.

Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, a 2,000 member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

To be eligible, student-athletes must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his or her current institution and be nominated by his or her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.