June 3, 2010
Bronx, N.Y. -
Fordham University graduate student Brigid Moriarty (Manchester Center, Vt./Burr and Burton Seminary) and junior Kerri Gallagher (Belle Harbor, N.Y./Bishop Kearney) were named to the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District® women's track & field/cross country teams it was announced today.
Nominations and voting for the All-America programs are conducted by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America. There is a University Division (Division I programs) and a College Division (DII, DIII, NAIA, NJCAA programs).
Three Academic All-District teams are chosen in each district, with those on the All-District first teams placed on the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration.
The Academic All-District® award is another of many awards for Moriarty and Gallagher for their athletic and academic accomplishments this year. Moriarty was named Academic All-Atlantic 10 for cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field this year while Gallagher was named Academic All-Conference for both indoor and out track and field. Moriarty is the first female student-athlete (third overall) at Fordham to earn all three Atlantic 10 academic honors in the same season.
Moriarty, who graduated with a degree in English in 2009 and is currently working on a master's degree in English, won the 10,000 meters at the 2010 Atlantic 10 Outdoor Championships in a time of 35:53.16 to earn First Team All-Conference honors. She also placed 12th in the College Women's Championship 3000m race at the 2010 Penn Relays and won the 10,000m at the 2010 Metropolitan Championships.
Most recently, Moriarty placed 31st in a time of 36:39.09 at the 2010 NCAA East Regionals in Greensboro, North Carolina, on May 27th. Prior to the NCAA's she took fourth in the 10,000m at the 2010 ECAC Outdoor Championships at Princeton University on May 15th to earn All-East honors.
The 2009 cross country team MVP and co-MVP of the 2010 outdoor squad, Moriarty placed fifth in the 5000m at the 2010 Atlantic 10 Indoor Championships in an ECAC qualifying time of 17:24.94 while also taking tenth in the 3000m at A-10s (10:06.18). She recorded Fordham's fastest 3000m and 5000m times in 2009-10 and was a member of the distance medley relay which won the 2010 Metropolitan Indoor championship.
Last fall, Moriarty was named Academic All-Atlantic 10 for cross country after placing sixth at the 2009 Atlantic 10 Cross Country championships to earn All-Conference honors, only the second Fordham female cross country runner ever to do so.
Gallagher, a Math major, won the 800m at the 2010 Atlantic 10 Outdoor Championships in an Atlantic 10 record time of 2:09.08, improving on her ECAC qualifying time, to earn First Team All-Atlantic 10 honors. She was also a member of the 4x400 relay at A-10s, placing fourth in a school record time of 3:50.64, and the 4x800 that also placed fourth.
Most recently, Gallagher took sixth in her heat of the 800m at the 2010 NCAA East Regionals in Greensboro, North Carolina, on May 27th in a time of 2:09.68, which would placed her 32nd overall by the end of all six heats.
Gallagher also won the 800m at the 2010 Metropolitan Outdoor Championships and placed fifth 800m at the 2010 Colonial Relays.
During the indoor season, Gallagher, the 2009-10 Fordham women's indoor MVP, wrapped up her indoor season with a second place finish in the 1000 meters at the 2010 ECAC Indoor Championships on March 7th. She was edged out at the finish line by Connecticut's Leah Andrianos, who won the race in a time of 2:47.41, 0.45 seconds ahead of Gallagher. Gallagher's time of 2:47.86, a season-best for the Rams, was the second fastest women's indoor 1000m time in Fordham University history, trailing only Lauren Gubicza's school record time of 2:45.8 set in 1992.
Two weeks prior to the ECAC Championships, Gallagher won the 1000 meter title at the 2010 Atlantic 10 Championship held at the University of Rhode Island while placing second in the mile, earning First Team All-Conference honors in the 1000m and Second Team accolades in the mile. She started her day by placing second in the mile in a time of 4:55.76 to earn Second Team All-Conference honors. Later in the day, she came back to take first in the 1000 meters, winning in a time of 2:55.25, almost two seconds ahead of La Salle's Kellilyn Fierras.
On the year, Gallagher recorded Fordham's fastest 800 meter time, clocking a school-record 2:08.56 on February 12th at the Valentine Invitational in Boston, breaking Lauren Gubicza's 17-year old school record in the 800 meters.
