Danoski Named Women's Indoor T&F Senior Scholar Athlete
Danoski Named Women's Indoor T&F Senior Scholar Athlete
TOWSON, Md. – The Landmark Conference selects 22 senior scholar athletes each year to recognize the top student-athlete in each sport based on academics and athletics.
The honorees must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.20 and are selected by a committee of Landmark Conference officers, athletics directors, senior woman administrators, faculty athletic representatives, and sports information directors.
Moravian College senior Carly Danoski has been selected as the 2020 Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete for Women's Indoor Track & Field.
This winter, Danoski captured three Landmark Conference Indoor Championships, winning the 800-meter run, the mile run and as part of the 4x400-meter relay team. She was selected as All-Mideast Region in all three events by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for being in the top five in each of the individual events and the top three in the relay among all of the competitors in the region. Danoski is ranked fifth in the nation in the mile with a school record time of 4:54.78 that is converted to 4:57.70 due to being run on a banked track for NCAA qualifying in the Fastrack National Invitational on Friday, February 14. She will run in the event at the 2020 NCAA Division III National Championships on Friday, March 13.
Danoski is an eight-time Landmark Conference Indoor Champion, capturing the title in the 800-meter run in 2018, 2019 and 2020, the mile run in 2019 and 2020 and the 4x400-meter relay in 2018, 2019 and 2020. She earned All-Conference Second Team honors as a freshman in the 4x400-meter relay in 2017 when she also finished third in the 400-meter dash and 11th in the 800-meter run at the Landmark Championship meet. Danoski is making her second trip to the NCAA DIII Indoor Championships after finishing 16th in the 800-meter run preliminaries in 2020.
Off the track, Danoski has maintained a 3.90 GPA in environmental science with a minor in French. Danoski has made Moravian's Dean's List six times, and she is a three-time selection to the Landmark Conference Fall and Winter Academic Honor Rolls and twice to the Landmark Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll. Danoski is also a member of Moravian's Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. She also participates in Emerging Leaders, the Greyhound Leadership Program, while also being a writing center tutor and a writing fellow on campus.
Danoski is Moravian's 33rd Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athlete since the conference began in 2007-08, and she is the third women's indoor track & field student-athlete to be honored and seventh overall selection from the Moravian women's track & field program.
Complete List of Senior Scholar Athletes