Landmark Conference Announces Spring All-Academic Team
MADISON, N.J. -- The Landmark Conference honored four Susquehanna University student-athletes from four different teams with inclusion on its 2010 spring all-academic team on June 24.
Senior softball catcher Kelli Holota (Spring Lake, N.J./Livingston), senior track & field athlete Cait Pflaum (York, Pa./West York), sophomore track & field athlete Joe Zamadics (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) and junior tennis player Bruce Osborn (Sayre, Pa./Sayre Area) are the honorees.
Holota, a biology-secondary education major with a 3.58 grade point average, finished her collegiate academic career with a 4.00 gpa this past semester.
A tri-captain, she helped Susquehanna to a school-record 34 wins this year on the strength of a mid-season, school-record 19-game winning streak. After a second straight Landmark runner-up finish in 2010, the team was invited to the NCAA Division III championships for the first time in its history, where it went 2-2 at the Newport News, Va., regional.
Holota is a three-time all-Landmark player, including back-to-back first-team awards the last two years. She is the SU career-record-holder in at bats (430) and is tied for the career record in doubles (31). She also sits second in school history in career runs batted in (69) and total bases (187) and is the school single-season record-holder in doubles (14 in 2010). She is tied for the school single-season record in sacrifice flies (four in 2010) as well and is second in school single-season history in RBI (35 in 2010).
She led the Landmark in 2010 in sac flies and tied for second in doubles. She also picked off a Landmark-high six baserunners this year.
Holota has been on the 2010, 2009 and 2008 Landmark spring academic honor rolls. She is Vice President II of SU's chapter of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, a Beta Beta Beta biology honor society member, a Kappa Delta Pi education honor society member and a student assistant in SU's Mailing Services office.
Pflaum, an English-secondary education major, also boasts a 3.58 gpa after recording a 4.00 in her final semester.
She is the Landmark and Susquehanna record-holder in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 38 minutes, 45.93 seconds at the Jim Taylor Invitational on March 28, 2009.
She scored 10 points for runner-up SU at the 2010 Landmark outdoor championships, including a second-place finish in the 10,000. She also helped to score 12 points at the 2009-10 Landmark indoor championships. The team finished as runners-up at that meet as well.
Pflaum helped to score 16 points at the 2008-09 Landmark indoor championships as well, including runner-up finishes in the distance medley relay and 5,000, while the Crusaders finished in second place in the team standings again. She also scored 13 points at the 2008 Landmark outdoor championships, including a runner-up finish in the 10,000, and scored two more points at the 2007-08 Landmark indoor championships in another team runner-up finish.
She is also a co-captain of SU women's cross country and has been on the 2008 and 2007 all-Landmark teams for that sport. Susquehanna earned its first women's cross-country team title in 2008. She was a contributor to SU cross country's conference team runner-up finish in 2009 as well.
This is Pflaum's second Landmark all-academic team selection, as she was on the 2008-09 winter squad as well. She has also been on every Landmark academic honor roll over the past three school years.
She is a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta freshmen, Sigma Tau Delta English and Kappa Delta Pi education honor societies and is a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America volunteer.
Zamadics, an economics major with an impressive 3.98 grade point average, also recorded a 4.00 gpa during the most recent semester.
He has been on every all-Landmark cross country and indoor and outdoor track & field team over the past two school years, including multiple individual championships and the 2008-09 Landmark indoor Track Athlete of the Year award. He helped lead Susquehanna to the 2009 and 2008 Landmark cross-country team championships and the 2008-09 indoor track & field championship, which was the first indoor conference team title in school history. Susquehanna has been the runner-up at every other Landmark track & field championship over the past two school years as well.
He has been on the 2010 Landmark spring academic honor roll, the 2009-10 Landmark winter academic honor roll and the 2009 Landmark fall academic honor roll. He is a member of SU SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise).
Osborn is a political science major with a 3.80 gpa.
He tied for the Susquehanna high with 10 singles wins this past season (10-2 record), including a 10-1 record in the sixth flight. He led the Landmark with those sixth-flight wins and tied for the Landmark-high in sixth-flight conference wins (4-1 record).
He was on the 2010 and 2009 Landmark spring academic honor rolls and is a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha political science, Pi Gamma Mu social sciences and Alpha Lambda Delta freshmen honor societies.
The Landmark all-academic teams recognize two male and two female student-athletes from each member institution for each season, accounting for a total of 32 honorees each time.
The 2010 Landmark spring Senior Scholar Athletes will be announced at a later time.
