6/10/2004 - Rifle
Five Mids Earn District Academic Honors
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Led by first-team representatives Billy Hurley (Leesburg, Va.) and Mike Miller (Albuquerque, N.M.), the Naval Academy placed five athletes on the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District II At-Large Teams, announced this week by CoSIDA. In addition to Hurley and Miller, Noah White (El Cajon, Calif.) was named to the men's second team, while Allison Moon (Bradenton, Fla.) and Kacie Inman (Fredericksburg, Va.) garnered women's second-team accolades.
As first-team selections, Miller and Hurley will now appear on the national ballot that will determine CoSIDA's Academic All-America Team.
A four-time All-Patriot League selection, Billy Hurley is one of the finest golfers in the program's history. Of the 51 collegiate meets in which he participated during his four-year career, he produced seven wins, finished in the top-five 25 times and the top-10 31 times. Awarded the Academy's Thompson Trophy Cup, presented to that midshipman, male or female, who has done the most during the year to promote athletics at the Naval Academy, he added to his lengthy list of accomplishments when he learned he was the recipient of the 2004 Byron Nelson Award. Additionally, he was one of the first-two players to be named to the 2004 Palmer Cup presented by Monster Team and is the first player to represent a service academy in the annual Ryder Cup-style competition. He was also on the watch list for the 2004 The Ben Hogan Award and was named the 2004 Patriot League Player of the Year after capturing the Patriot League Tournament title. Hurley, who garnered PING Mid-Atlantic Region recognition for the second-consecutive season, completed his collegiate career in mid-May when he placed 14th at the 2004 NCAA East Region Championship in New Haven, Conn. He ended his academic career at Navy with a 3.71 cumulative grade-point average as a quantitative economics major.
Miller, a Second-Team NCAA and NRA All-America selection in smallbore, qualified for his third-straight NCAA Championship this spring. The Albuquerque, N.M., native had never shot smallbore before arriving in Annapolis, but ended his junior campaign with a 12th-place showing at the NCAA Championship. Miller was also Navy's top finisher at the NCAA Air Rifle Championship in March, taking sixth place with a personal-best tying mark of 391. He also competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials in May. Miller has posted a 3.66 cumulative GPA as an aerospace engineering major.
White, who was selected as the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year for Men's Swimming and Diving, won three individual (50, 100 and 200 freestyle) and four relay (200 and 400 freestyle and medley) events at the league championship to also earn league swimmer-of-the-year honors. He would go on to compete in three individual and two relay events at the NCAA Championship, earning Honorable Mention All-America honors in the 200 and 400 freestyle relay events. The recent Naval Academy graduate with a 3.27 cumulative GPA and a degree in systems engineering will compete in July's U.S. Olympic Trials in both the 50 and 100 freestyle events.
Moon, who was tabbed as the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year for Women's Swimming and Diving, graduated from the Naval Academy two weeks ago with a 3.67 cumulative GPA as a honors oceanography major. She earned All-Patriot League honors for the third-straight season as she placed fifth in the 50 freestyle, sixth in the 200 free and ninth in the 100 free at the 2004 league championship. In addition, Moon was a member of Navy's victorious 200 and 400 freestyle and medley relay teams that won titles at the league meet, bringing her career conference relay title total to nine, a mark that ties the Navy all-time record and sets a Division I (since 1992) standard at the Academy.
A four-year member of the women's crew program, Inman was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps during the recent graduation ceremonies. She posted a 4.0 GPA in a pair of semesters at Navy and concluded her academic career with a 3.64 cumulative GPA and a degree in political science. Inman competed with the first varsity boat during her junior and senior years and helped Navy win titles at the Murphy Cup and the Patriot League Challenge regattas this spring. She earned Second-Team Mid-Atlantic Region honors from the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association in 2002 and was selected as a CRCA National Scholar-Athlete as both a junior and senior.
