SEATTLE (June 27) ­ Seattle Pacific University track and field champion Teona Perkins has been voted to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America first team.

Perkins (Sr., Kennewick, Wa.), who received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship earlier this week, becomes only the Falcons' third track athlete to win a national title and make Academic All-American in the same season.

A European Studies major, Perkins has a cumulative grade point average of 3.70. She won the high jump at the NCAA Division II Championships last month, and had finished fourth nationally indoors.

Perkins is the women's track program's 10th Academic All-American. Only Bente Moe (1990) and Karin Grelsson (1993-94) have claimed NCAA titles and been Academic All-Americans in the same year.