Meister Selected WIAC Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete

**Release courtesy of Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference 

MADISON, Wis.--University of Wisconsin-Platteville's Johanna Meister has been selected the recipient of the 2020 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Judy Kruckman Women's Outdoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete Award.
 
A senior from Darlington, Wis., Meister maintains a 3.87 grade point average and is majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in Spanish. She was a member of the 2019 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Team as an individual and is a three-time honoree on the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll. Meister has been recognized on UW-Platteville's Dean's List numerous semesters and received academic scholarships. She was selected UW-Platteville's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the 2018-19 academic year.
 
Meister won the 800-meter run at the WIAC Outdoor Championship in 2019 after placing third in the event in 2018. She was second in the 1,500-meter run in 2019, when she secured All-Midwest Region distinction from the USTFCCCA in both events. Meister received UW-Platteville's Female Athlete of the Year during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years.
 
Meister is the student vice president of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and Society of Women Engineers. She has volunteered for Pioneer Your Future, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, spring cleaning at an area church, highway clean-up and leaf raking. She has served as a student assistant for CenterPOINT in the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Science Department of Student Success Programs.
 
Also nominated for this year's scholar-athlete award were:  UW-Eau Claire's Sasha Riley (Sr., Fairmont, Minn.); UW-La Crosse's McKenzie Kirtz (Sr., Adams, Minn./Southland); UW-Oshkosh's Ashton Keene (Sr., Pewaukee, Wis.); UW-River Falls' Allison Stewart (Jr., Tigerton, Wis./Gresham-Bowler); UW-Stevens Point's Michelle Petkovsek (Sr., Waupaca, Wis.); UW-Stout's Heather Beecher (Sr., Gladwin, Mich.); and UW-Whitewater's Madison McDonald (Sr., Brookfield, Wis./East).
 
The WIAC Scholar-Athlete Award is named after Judy Kruckman who served as Assistant Commissioner for the WIAC from 1996-98. Prior to this appointment, she was Commissioner of the Wisconsin Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WWIAC) from October, 1984 - September, 1996. Kruckman was the women's athletics director at UW-Eau Claire from 1974-84, and one of the original representatives to the WWIAC when it formed in 1971. She was inducted into the WIAC Hall of Fame in 2012.

In order to be nominated for the scholar-athlete award, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.50 grade point average. In addition, she must be in her last year of competition, or on schedule to graduate this academic year, and have competed for a minimum of two years.