CSC's Garcia closes cross country career on high note

Chadron State College senior Alejandro Garcia of Pine Bluffs concluded his cross county career on a high note last weekend in Florida.

It was announced on Friday that Garcia was the recipient of the NCAA Elite 90 Award, which goes to the runner at the NCAA Men's Cross Country Championships with the highest cumulative grade point average. He has a GPA of almost 4.0 while majoring in health and physical education and earning nearly 150 credit hours. The only grade other than an A that he has received in college was a B at Gillette College, where he was a student two years before transferring to...