Helen Crofts wins GNAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award

Portland, OR – Simon Fraser University track and field athlete Helen Crofts (West Vancouver, BC) has been voted the 2012-13 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Crofts along with male winner David Downs of Seattle Pacific, will now be a candidate for the 2013 Conference Commissioners Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, which will be selected this summer. Crofts received seven of 10 first-place votes in the balloting by the conference's athletic directors. The award comes a week after Crofts was named the GNAC Co-Female Athlete of the Year. She had an impressive career not only on the track, but also in the classroom at Simon Fraser, compiling a near-perfect 4.14 grade point average. A biological science major with a concentration in Cells, Molecules and Physiology, Crofts compiled the highest grade point average among Clan athletes in 2012-13, earning the Bill DeVries Award for excellence in academics and athletics. She accomplished all that academically while also winning two national titles and four All-American awards during the 2013 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor national championships. Read the full article here: http://athletics.sfu.ca/news/2013/6/12/WTRACK_0612130927.aspx?path=general