SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Senior Jillian Drouin was named to the to the ESPN The Magazine Women's Cross Country/Track & Field Academic All-America First Team. The honor is the second for Drouin in her career after being named to the first team in 2007.
Drouin, the 2008 Soladay Award winner (the most prestigious honor bestowed upon a student-athlete at Syracuse University), finished 11th in the heptathlon at this year's NCAA Outdoor Championship. The 2007 Heptathlon All-American is a two-time BIG EAST heptathlon champion. She finished third in the heptathlon at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championship and is a three-time BIG EAST Champion in the high jump, pentathlon and heptathlon, and a four-time All-conference performer. Drouin owns three Syracuse school records in the pentathlon, heptathlon and outdoor high jump.
The 2007-08 BIG EAST Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Drouin is a Syracuse University Remembrance Scholar and 2006-07 Academic All-America Second Team honoree. A three-time BIG EAST Academic All-Star, Drouin has been on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll every semester at Syracuse. She is a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society and Phi Beta Delta – an honor society of international scholars.