SEATTLE (June 7) ­ Teona Perkins, Karin Rohde and Eddie Strickler of Seattle Pacific University track and field program have been voted to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VIII teams.

All are now finalists for the Academic All-America team, to be announced later this month.

A European Studies major with a 3.70 grade point average, Perkins (Sr., Kennewick, Wa.) won the women's high jump at the NCAA Championships last month. She was a three-time All-American in two seasons and won two conference championships. Perkins was the West Region indoor field athlete of the year as a senior and conference indoor track & field athlete of the year as a junior.

Rohde (Jr., Bellingham, Wa./Mt. Baker) was the Great Northwest Athletic Conference champion in the indoor 5000 meters and the steeplechase outdoors, the latter for the second year in a row. She was also All-America in the indoor mile (fifth) and distance medley relay (8th). Rohde is a nursing major with a 3.82 GPA.

Strickler (Sr., Richland, Wa.) claimed three GNAC 800 titles, indoors and outdoors, and was All-America indoors as a senior, taking eighth at nationals. He completed his career by finishing ninth in the NCAA outdoor meet and is ranked No. 2 on the conference all-time 800 list.