Harris, Jatsek Named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District – Ohio State Buckeyes
6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track & Field
June 1, 2006
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State junior women’s sprinter Jenna Harris and sophomore men’s thrower Leonard Jatsek were named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans in District IV Thursday in voting conducted by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Harris, who will run the 200-meter dash at the NCAA Championships June 7-10 in Sacramento, Calif., earned All-District status for the second year in a row.
A native of Somerset, N.J., Harris carries a 3.96 grade point average (4.0 scale) in marketing at OSU. She was a two-time Big Ten sprint champion in 2005, winning the outdoor 100m dash and the indoor 60m dash. This season, Harris has followed by earning her first trip to the national meet in the 200m event. Last week at the NCAA Mideast Regional meet in Knoxville, Tenn., Harris set a personal best in the race to reach the final (23.51) and captured a Top 5 finish in the final with a 23.60. Harris also competed in the 100m dash and 4x400m relays at the regional meet.
Jatsek, the 2006 Big Ten indoor weight throw champion, is an agriculture major at OSU. The Walton Hills, Ohio product also reached the NCAA Regional in multiple events, throwing the hammer and shot put last weekend in Knoxville. Jatsek scored in all three heavy throw events at the Big Ten championships in April.
Harris and Jatsek were two of 25 student-athletes from the men’s and women’s track and field teams to gain OSU Scholar-Athlete status (minimum GPA of 3.0) in 2006.
