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Back to top 4/7/2006 Honors Student Erin Lichti Named MASCAC Scholar-Athlete
Lichti, one of the captains of the Elizabethtown women’s track & field team ever since her junior year, helped lead the Blue Jays to their first-ever Middle Atlantic Conference team title at the 2006 MAC Indoor Championships. She is a College record holder in ten events: the indoor 55m dash (7.46), indoor 60m dash (8.31), indoor 200m (26.56), indoor 4x200m relay (1:45.57), indoor 4x400m relay (4:03.59), outdoor 100m dash (12.42), outdoor 200m (25.60), outdoor 4x100m relay (48.49), outdoor 4x200m relay (1:46.54) and outdoor 4x400m relay (3:58.02). In 2004, Lichti was an NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship provisional qualifier in the 4x100m relay, and she was named the conference Rookie of the Year at the 2003 MAC Outdoor Championships. In her career, she has won MAC titles in individual events three times and in relay events six times. She has finished as the MAC runner-up in individual events five times and in relay events twice. She has also been a MAC bronze medalist three times in her career, and she has earned Second Team All-MAC honors by placing between fourth and sixth places in events at MAC Championship competition three times. Academically, Lichti has been a member of the MASCAC All-Academic Team every winter and spring season since her sophomore year. She is an Elizabethtown College Presidential Scholar, and she has earned a place on the College’s Dean’s List every semester of her collegiate career. She also earned membership in Alpha Lambda Delta, a national honor society for first-year students. She is majoring in music with a minor in religious studies at Elizabethtown College. The Elizabethtown College women’s track & field team finished first out of ten teams with a score of 130 points at the 2006 MAC Indoor Championships in February to win its first conference title in the program’s seventh year of varsity competition. The Blue Jays’ outdoor season began March 24, and the 2006 MAC Outdoor Championships will be held May 4-6. The NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships will be held May 25-27. Back to top 3/27/2006 Honors Q&A sessions scheduled Have you started wondering about your Senior Honors Thesis? Do you need to know what you can use Acadmic Grant money for and how to apply for it? Learn answers to these questions and more at one of the Q&A information sessions scheduled next week in the Honors Center.
Back to top 3/24/2006 Eight Honors Students to present at Busniess Conference Eight Honors Students will present at the Business Department's 6th Annual Student Conference in Business and Economics on Wednesday, April 5. The conference will take place throughout the day in the M&M Mars Room in Leffler Chapel. Megan Grimes '06 will present her senior thesis, "Lessons from NAFTA: North America's Experience with Regional Integration," at 10:30 a.m. during Session I, which begins at 9:15 a.m. Kimberley Wienches '09 will present "Economic Possibilities of the Gaza Strip" during Session III, which begins at 1:45 p.m. Kyle Buffenmyer '08, Laurelyn Foderaro '08, and Rachel Yearwood '08 will present on "Fed Challenge: Recommendations to the Federal Reserve" during Session III, which begins at 1:45 p.m. Yearwood will also present "A Study of Commodity Dependent Economics" at 4:00 p.m. Kimberley Whalen '06 will present her senior thesis, "Matching Up is Hard to Do: Investigating Generation Y's Response to Celebrity Endorsements," at 4:00 p.m. Brian Rossell '08 will present "Ireland: The Rise of the Celtic Tiger" during Session IV, which begins at 4:00 p.m. For more information about this event visit the Business Department's Web site at www.etown.edu/business. Back to top 3/15/2006 Honors Student presents at conference in Oklahoma  Kimberley Whalen, a senior Business Administration and Marketing major, presented part of her Senior Honors Thesis at the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators conference, part of the larger Federation of Business Disciplines conference, in Oklahoma City on March 3. The title of her thesis is "Matching Up is Hard to Do: Investigating Generation Y's Response to Celebrity Endorsements." |
Elizabethtown College senior sprinter Erin Lichti (Shickley, NE/Shickley Public) has been named the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation (MASCAC) Scholar-Athlete for women’s indoor track & field in the 2005-06 academic year. The MASCAC comprises the 16 colleges and universities that are members of the Middle Atlantic Conference, the Commonwealth Conference and the Freedom Conference. One Scholar-Athlete, who must be a senior with a minimum grade-point average of 3.2 to be considered for the award, is selected by the MASCAC for each sport on the basis of academic and athletic accomplishments.Back to News Index
