Many Bluffton High School athletes excel on the sports field and in the classroom.
Jim Raabe, Northwest Conference commissioner, has released the list of NWC scholar athletes for the fall season.
Scholar athletes are determined as follows:
• Must be a letter winner in their sport.
• Gold level -- GPA of 3.5 or higher during the season of their sport.
• Silver level -- GPA of 3.0 to 3.49 during the season of their sport.
Bluffton's list is below. In addition, an entire NWC list in attached.
Hannah Chappell-Dick, Bluffton, a senior at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA(Bluffton, Ohio/Bluffton) finished 17th at the NCAA National Cross Country Championships, becoming EMU's first women's NCAA All-American. Chappell-Dick set a new PR with a time of 21:38.5, just 15 seconds behind the first place winner.
Hannah Chappell-Dick, a Bluffton High School graduate and a senior at Eastern Mennonite University, has qualified for the 2015 Division III NCAA Cross Country Championships in Winneconne, Wisc. The meet takes place Saturday, Nov. 21. The top 35 finishers earn All-American status.