June 24, 2011

Complete Release

TOWSON, Md. - Senior Kate Niehaus was honored as a member of the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America® Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

A member of Stanford's back-to-back NCAA champion cross country teams in 2006 and 2007, Niehaus is a graduate student working on her Master's degree in BioEngineering with a perfect 4.00 G.P.A. The winner of the NCAA Elite 88 Award in 2009, she was a two-time NCAA qualifier for the Outdoor Championship Meet. A native of Columbia, S.C., she was the Pacific-10 Conference runner-up in the 10,000-meter run in 2009.

Niehaus joins Chris Derrick, Elliott Heath and Miles Unterreiner of the men's team to give Stanford a total of four Academic All-Americans.

Niehaus was also recently awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship for her achievments both on the track and in the classroom.