WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Midwestern State's Cara Mack garnered Lone Star Conference Track & Field All-Academic honors Wednesday when the league announced its annual awards.
 
The sophomore from Llano carries a sterling 4.00 grade-point average as mathematics major. She earned Division II All-Academic honors from the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association in 2010 and was a member of the 2010-11 LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll.
 
Mack returned to competition this spring running clocking season bests of 20:10.35 in the 5,000-meter run, 5:06.35 in the 1,500-meter run and 2:35.37 in the 800-meter dash after helping the Mustangs to a conference title and an NCAA Division II championship appearance as a freshman in 2010.
 
Angelo State graduate student Cathryn Rittenberry earned Academic Athlete of the Year honors for the second consecutive year to head the 11-member squad. She boasts provisional marks in the 100-meter hurdles and heptathlon this spring.
 
Other honorees include West Texas A&M's Katie Jones and Tara Tarrant, Angelo State's Emeline Crutcher, Kelsey Coffman and Summer Sutherland, Incarnate Word's Shaneve Swift and Stephanie Glatt, Tarleton State's Kyndal Trnka and Texas A&M-Kingsville's Samantha Alvarez.
 
To be eligible for LSC academic honors, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.30 grade-point average and have reached sophomore status both athletically and academically. The Academic Athlete of the Year award and All-Academic Team are selected from the list of academically qualified players with the league's sports information directors voting on the basis of both academic and athletic achievement.

2012 LSC Track & Field All-Academic Awards

Academic Athlete of the Year
Cathryn Rittenberry, Angelo State

Women's All-Academic Team

Athlete	Team	Year	Major	Hometown
Cathryn Rittenberry	Angelo State	Grad.	Int. Prof. Accountancy	Carthage, Texas
Katie Jones	West Texas A&M	Jr.	Sports & Exercise Science	Boys Ranch, Texas
Emeline Crutcher	Angelo State	Sr.	Biochemistry	Wellman, Texas
Cara Mack	Midwestern State	So.	Mathematics	Llano, Texas
Tara Tarrant	West Texas A&M	Jr.	Secondary Education	Amarillo, Texas
Kelsey Coffman	Angelo State	Sr.	Nursing	Rock Springs, Texas
Kyndall Trnka	Tarleton State	Jr.	Kinesiology	Caldwell, Texas
Samantha Alvarez	Texas A&M-Kingsville	Jr.	Pre-Physical Therapy	Victoria, Texas
Shaneve Swift	Incarnate Word	So.	Accounting	San Antonio, Texas
Stephanie Glatt	Incarnate Word	Jr.	Nursing	San Antonio, Texas
Summer Sutherland	Angelo State	Sr.	Nursing	Crane, Texas