Burns Earns Another Academic Honor
6/9/2008 12:40:43 PM | Women's Cross Country, Women's Track & Field
Marc Gignac
DAVIDSON, N.C. - Davidson senior women's cross country and track standout Brenna Burns has been named first-team ESPN The Magazine All-District III in a vote conducted by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
It's the second-straight year Burns has earned the honor, and she will advance to the national ballot for Academic All-America. She recently became the first student-athlete in Davidson history to win the prestigious NCAA Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship, which is awarded to one female and one male student-athlete each academic year.
A standout both athletically and academically, Burns holds five Davidson records (the indoor 3,000 meters, the indoor and outdoor 5,000 meters, the outdoor 10,000 meters and the 5K) and has been named to the All-Southern Conference team six times—three in cross country and three in track.
In addition to her record-setting performances, Burns, a psychology major, was named to Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Society) and Psi Chi (National Honor Society in Psychology), and she was named the Most Outstanding Track Performer at the 2007 Indoor Southern Conference championships.
Burns has also been extremely active on her campus and in the community. She is a member of Changing Minds, Davidson's mental health awareness club and has volunteered in many capacities—as a tutor for Carolina Applied Behavior Analysis Service, an instructor for autistic children at a non-profit treatment center and a coach for Girls on the Run International.
Burns plans to begin working as a residential teacher at the New England Center for Children (NECC), a nonprofit autism education center and the world's leading autism treatment center, in July. She will then pursue a PhD in applied developmental psychology, with hopes of working long-term with children in an autism treatment center.
It's the second-straight year Burns has earned the honor, and she will advance to the national ballot for Academic All-America. She recently became the first student-athlete in Davidson history to win the prestigious NCAA Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship, which is awarded to one female and one male student-athlete each academic year.
A standout both athletically and academically, Burns holds five Davidson records (the indoor 3,000 meters, the indoor and outdoor 5,000 meters, the outdoor 10,000 meters and the 5K) and has been named to the All-Southern Conference team six times—three in cross country and three in track.
In addition to her record-setting performances, Burns, a psychology major, was named to Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Society) and Psi Chi (National Honor Society in Psychology), and she was named the Most Outstanding Track Performer at the 2007 Indoor Southern Conference championships.
Burns has also been extremely active on her campus and in the community. She is a member of Changing Minds, Davidson's mental health awareness club and has volunteered in many capacities—as a tutor for Carolina Applied Behavior Analysis Service, an instructor for autistic children at a non-profit treatment center and a coach for Girls on the Run International.
Burns plans to begin working as a residential teacher at the New England Center for Children (NECC), a nonprofit autism education center and the world's leading autism treatment center, in July. She will then pursue a PhD in applied developmental psychology, with hopes of working long-term with children in an autism treatment center.
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