Penn State National Meet
Glavasevic Named MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week
1/28/2011 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
BUFFALO, NY – University at Buffalo women's indoor track and field athlete Ajla Glavasevic has been named the Mid-American Conference's Female Scholar Athlete of the Week. The league announced the award from its Cleveland headquarters this morning.
Glavasevic, a senior management major with a 3.589 grade point average, broke the UB school record to win the women's pentathlon at the Cornell Upstate Challenge, helping the Bulls to a second-place team finish. Glavasevic scored 3,758 points, seven more than Patrice Coney's 2008 total. She won three of the five events on the day, taking the 60-meter hurdles (8.99), long jump (18-9.75, 5.73m) and 800-meters (2:33.21) and setting personal bests in the hurdles, 800-meters and shot put (40-9, 12.42m). Her pentathlon point total is second in the MAC and the seventh highest in the nation this season.
This is the second consecutive week that Buffalo athletes have earned the MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week honors. Women's basketball player Kourtney Brown and men's diver Colin Patrican earned the awards last week.Three other men's athletes, Nick Fetterman (soccer), Matt Schwippert (swimming) and Byron Mulkey (basketball) also have earned the weekly recognitions earlier this year.
The MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week honor is presented to a MAC male and female student-athlete who has a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better and performs well during the week's competition. The winners are selected by a group of the conference's faculty athletic representatives.
