TOWSON, Md. --- Tusculum College's Simon Holzapfel has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Men's Cross Country/Track & Field College Division First Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Holzapfel earns Academic All-America® for a second straight year and becomes only the fifth Tusculum student-athlete to garner First Team recognition. He also becomes only the third Pioneer to be a two-time Academic All-American®. He joins former women's soccer standout Denise Fliesser and football All-American tight end Jarrell NeSmith as the only two-time Academic All-Americans® in school history. Holzapfel was named to the Academic All-America® Third Team last year.

Holzapfel, a 5-5 junior from Nuremberg, Germany, has emerged as one of the premier runners in the nation. He has a perfect 4.00 cumulative grade point average, majoring in Sport Management and Sport Science.

Holzapfel has enjoyed one of the best seasons ever recorded by a Tusculum harrier, winning five of his six events this past fall. He won his first five events to start the season, including the South Atlantic Conference Championship with an 8K school-record time of 25:53.96.

The two-time All-SAC First Team honoree finished ninth at the NCAA Division II Southeast Region Championship, while garnering All-Region honors for the second time in his career.

Holzapfel has shattered the Tusculum Record Book and owns eight of the 10 fastest 8K times in school history, including the seven bests. He has captured 10 individual titles in his career and has been named SAC Runner of the Week on four occasions, including three times this season.

He was named the 2009 South Atlantic Conference Scholar Athlete for Men's Cross Country, becoming the first male runner in school history to earn this award. He is a two-time recipient of the Duffield Academic Award, which recognizes the TC student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average. He is a member of the Alpha Chi Honor Society and has been named to the SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll, Tusculum Athletic Director's Honor Roll, the Tusculum Dean's List, President's List and the Charles Oliver Gray Honor's List.

Last month, he was named the recipient of the Tennessee Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (TAHPERD) Outstanding Major Award.

Holzapfel serves as a senator for the Tusculum Student Government Association and is a campus tutor. He is a member of the Tusculum President's Society, where he serves as student ambassador. He also serves as a resident assistant and is a member of a campus group that works on protecting the environment, recycling and energy saving. He also volunteers at a local nursing home with painting and other projects, and fundraising projects at a local elementary school.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/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.

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2010 ESPN THE MAGAZINE Academic All-America®
College Division Men's Track & Cross Country Team as selected by CoSIDA
First Team
Name School GPA
Loren Ahonen Western State 3.88
Jarrett Arredondo Worcester Polytechnic 3.72
Aaron Braun Adams State 3.77
Brian Copley Nebraska Wesleyan 4.00
John Donkersloot Hope 3.90
Orolando Duffus St. Augustine's 3.95
Ricky Flynn Lynchburg 3.54
Simon Holzapfel Tusculum 4.00
Mark Husted Colorado School of Mines 3.85
Pat Jager St. Thomas (Minn.) 3.61
Reuben Mwei Adams State 3.40
Max Petersen Augustana (Ill.) 3.98
Bobby Torphy Muhlenberg 4.00
Paul Wagner East Stroudsburg 3.80
Todd Wildman Trinity (Texas) 3.70

Second Team
Name School GPA
Cory Anderson Taylor 4.00
Ryan Bertucci California State-Chico 3.88
Kale Booher Ohio Wesleyan 3.96
Nick Borchert Augustana (Ill.) 3.96
Alan Bowsher Ohio Northern 3.86
Luke Cragg Adams State 3.80
Sean Daly Oneonta State 3.73
Steve Dry Emory 3.99
Allen Ernst Missouri S&T 4.00
Chad Ernst Wisconsin-River Falls 4.00
Ken Gilkerson Michigan Tech 3.94
Alex Greenhouse Emory 3.65
Garrett Harms Rensselaer Polytechnic 3.94
Zac Preble Bemidji State 3.53
Cody Stelzer Whitworth 3.50
Greg Tao Massachusetts Inst. Tech. 3.76
Tim Uher Wittenberg 3.91
Josh Wilks Seton Hill 3.90

Third Team
Name School GPA
Shawn Boss Central Missouri 4.00
Michael Burris Rose-Hulman 3.91
Christopher Copeland St. Augustine's 3.64
Tony Dipre Allegheny 3.77
Frank Iwanicki Rutgers-Camden 3.76
John Kennedy Gustavus Adolphus 3.98
Bryan Kolacz Keene State 3.40
Derek Kruse Grove City 3.92
Jeffrey Minkus Hope 3.91
Chris Platano Willamette 3.94
Aaron Swift Colorado School of Mines 3.83
Shayn Weidner Incarnate Word 3.95