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 Senior Kerrie Savery was named the Southern Conference Student-Athlete of the Week. |
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Jan. 15, 2008
Cullowhee, N.C. - Western Carolina's Kerrie Savery was named the Southern Conference Student-Athlete of the Week on Tuesday by the conference office. A standout on Western Carolina's women's track team, Savery has 3.3-grade point average and is majoring in Biology.
Savery, a senior from Palm Harbor, Fla., led the women's track & field team at the UNC Invitational with a third place finish in the 800-meters. Savery had the best 800-meter time in the preliminaries. She has the third fastest 800 time in the conference this year at 2:24.12.
She was also a part of the first-place distance medley relay team that finished 20 seconds ahead of the second-place team. Savery placed seventh in the 4x400-meter relay, running with the "B" team which finished ahead of two "A" teams from Kennesaw State and North Carolina State.
The WCU Track & Field teams will travel to Johnson City, Tennessee, this weekend to compete in the two-day Niswonger Invitational, hosted by East Tennessee State University.
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