Benford Named to ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II Women's Track/Cross Country Second Team

by Sports Information
6/5/05

LANCASTER, PA – Franklin & Marshall College’s Bryn Benford (Sr., Malvern, PA/Great Valley) has been named to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II College Division Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country second team.

The Outstanding Field Athlete at the 2005 Centennial Conference Indoor Track Championships at Dickinson College to lead Franklin & Marshall to a fifth place finish, Benford won the triple jump (34-09.00) and placed fourth in the high jump (5-00.25), fifth in the shot put (34-05.75) and 12th in the long jump (14-09.25) to finish with 19 of the Diplomats’ 54 points as she became the first Franklin & Marshall track athlete to earn Outstanding Performance honors.

At the 2005 Centennial Conference Outdoor Track Championships hosted by Muhlenberg College, she placed fifth in the triple jump (35’-06.00”), third in the high jump (5’-2.50”), second in the discus (123’-05”), 10th in the shot put (32’-11.25”) and seventh in the javelin (105’-01”) to lead Franklin & Marshall College to a sixth place finish.

She holds the F&M indoor track records in the triple jump (36’-5”), shot put (35’-8”), weight throw (43’-9”), pentathlon (2620 points), 4x400 relay (4:12.59) and the 4x800 relay (9:58.48). In addition, she holds the outdoor track records in the discus (123’-08”) and the hammer (134’-08”).

A Geoscience major, she earned All-Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll and Franklin & Marshall Delphic Student-Athlete Honor Society honors in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Further, she was awarded the 2004 Wise-Beutner Structural Geology Award and was a finalist for the 2005 F&M Delphic Outstanding Student-Athlete and Senior Athlete of the Year awards.

The District II region includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.