WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- Pac-10 Champions Galen Rupp, Keshia Baker, Brianne Theisen, Chris Winter, Zoe Buckman and Melissa Gergel led a large contingent of 34 Oregon men and women who were named to the Pac-10 all-academic teams on Wednesday. That list also included 2009 Pac-10 runner-ups Lucy Cridland, Nicole Blood and Kalindra McFadden.

Rupp, who carries a 3.87 grade point average in business administration, was joined on the first team by David Klech, Claire Michel, Scott Penny, Scott Wall, Bria Wetsch and Leah Worthen.

The Ducks’ second team honorees included Cridland, McFadden, Winter, Brooke Guiffre, Eric Hersey, Steven Johnson, Zoe Nelson and Alex Wolff.

A bevy of Oregon student-athletes made all-academic honorable mention selection, including Britton Nelson, A.J. O’Connell, Jordan Stray and Colin Witter-Tilton for the men and Baker, Blood, Buckman, Gergel, Theisen, Betsy Bies, Dana Buchanan, Erin Funkhouser, Jasmine Kelly, Alexandra Kosinski, Megan Maloney, Ashley McCrea, Jordan Roskelley, Rita Santibanez and Amy Skofstad for the women.

Twenty-eight of these student-athletes will be in competition at this week’s NCAA West Regional, which begins Friday at 2:40 p.m. at Historic Hayward Field.

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