Men's Indoor Track & Field

Landmark Reveals 2008-09 Winter All-Academic Team

Goucher's Natoli Among Seven to Repeat from 2007-08 List

March 26, 2009

MADISON, N.J. - The Landmark Conference today announced the names of the 32 student-athletes who make up the 2009 Winter Landmark All-Academic Team, which recognizes two male and two female athletes who have excelled athletically and academically from each of the eight Landmark institutions.

Goucher's four representatives on the second annual Winter Landmark All-Academic Team are Ryan Comstock (Frederick, Md./Middletown), a senior center on the men's basketball team, Zachary Martin (Victor, N.Y./Victor Central), a junior on the men's indoor track and field team, Bethany Natoli (Alexandria, Va./O'Connell), a senior on the women's swimming team, and Amber Smith (Baltimore, Md./Institute of Notre Dame), a junior forward on the women's basketball team.

Each school selected its four nominees, all of whom had to compete in any of the six winter sports for which the Landmark Conference conducts a championship. In addition, the nominees had to be a sophomore, junior or senior with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Comstock is a management major with a 3.62 GPA. He earned two letters playing for head coach Leonard Trevino after transferring to Goucher from Frederick Community College. As a senior, he appeared in 18 games, averaging 1.7 points and 1.3 rebounds per contest.

Martin, who placed ninth in the 5,000-meter run at the 2008-09 Landmark Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships, is studying English and carries a GPA of 3.68.

Natoli, who is working toward a degree in international relations and possesses a 3.71 GPA, also represented Goucher on the 2007-08 Winter Landmark All-Academic Team. She was the 2007-08 Landmark Conference champion in both the 100- and 200-yard backstrokes, and this year she placed fourth in both of those events and third in the 400-yard individual medley at the conference meet.

Smith was a second-team selection on the 2008-09 All-Landmark Conference Women's Basketball Team after leading the conference in rebounds (9.4 per game) and ranking third in points (14.3 ppg.), fourth in steals (2.63 spg.) and fifth in blocked shots (1.00 bpg.) She started all 24 games for the Gophers and scored at least 10 points in all but three of them. She is a communications and media studies major with a 3.41 GPA.

The 2009 Winter Landmark All-Academic Team features 17 seniors, 11 juniors and four sophomores. Natoli is one of the seven honorees who also represented their schools on last year's inaugural Winter Landmark All-Academic Team.