PHILADELPHIA – Senior Emily Lipman has been named to the 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area Women's Cross Country Team. The all-area team is voted on by the sports information offices of the 28 institutions from within the Philadelphia metropolitan area which compose the Philadelphia Area Sports Information Directors Association (Philly-SIDA).

Lipman earns academic all-area honors for the first time in her career after earning inclusion on the Centennial Conference academic honor roll three times.

In her final cross country season for the Fords, Lipman was the first Haverford runner across the finish line in all three postseason races earning first-team all-conference and all-Mideast Region honors along the way. She narrowly missed capturing the individual conference crown crossing the finish 1.3 seconds behind the winner, then brought home a seventh-place finish at the region meet and 53rd-place finish at the NCAA Division III championship race in the following weeks.

Lipman was the lone Centennial representative on the seven-runner all-area team. The 2011 performer of the year is Villanova University's Sheila Reid, a two-time NCAA D-I individual national champion (2010, 2011).

2011 Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area Women's Cross Country Team