Simon Fraser University track and field athlete Helen Crofts was voted the 2012/13 Great Northwest Athletic Conference female scholar-athlete of the year.
Crofts will now be candidate for the 2013 Conference Commissioners scholar athlete of the year award, which will be selected this summer.
The award comes a week after Crofts was named the conference co-female athlete of the year.
Crofts had an impressive career not only on the track, but also in the classroom, 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 this year, earning the Bill DeVries Award for excellence in academics and athletics.
Crofts accomplished her classroom standing while winning two national titles and four All-American awards at the NCAA indoor and outdoor national championships.
In the indoor meet in March in Birmingham, Alabama, Crofts won the 800-metre in a meet-record time of 2: 05.96. Crofts completed the sweep of NCAA 800m titles in the outdoor meet in May at Pueblo, Colorada, finishing first in a time of 2: 08.18.
A week prior to the nationals, Crofts was ninth at the U.S.A. high performance distance classic in a conference record time of 2: 02.10 - the third-fastest collegiate time this season.
