Women's Track & Field
Julia Hopson
Year: Senior
Hometown: Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
High School: Arlington
Highlights -- 2008-09: Team captain ... will be part of feature story on student-athlete artists in the NCAA trade magazine Champions, to be published in January ... will participate in an art exhibition at the NCAA Convention in January.
2008 outdoor highlights: Team captain ... fourth in the hammerthrow at the NCAA outdoor championships May 23 with a throw of 54.36 meters, earning her third All American award ... qualified for nationals with the second-best hammerthrow in the nation of 57.25 meters -- a Fredonia State and SUNYAC record -- while winning the ECAC championship meet May 15 ... second in the shot put at the New York State College Track Conference meet May 3 ... First Team All SUNYAC and Women's Field Athlete of the Year for the second straight season after winning her third straight hammerthrow (53.63 meters) and second straight shot put (12.92 meters), both NCAA provisional distances ... selected SUNYAC Women's Field Athlete of the Week after winning the hammerthrow, finishing second in the shot put, and third in the discus April. 19 at the U.B Invitational ... eighth of 48 women in the shot put March 21 at the Wake Forest Invitational.
2007-08 indoor highlights: Earned second All-American recognition by finishing second in the women's weight throw March 14 at the NCAA Division III championship meet. She was the third Fredonia State women to finish second at the national meet ... Atlantic Region Field Athlete of the Year ... defended her ECAC 20-pound weight throw title ... sixth in the ECAC shot put March 7 ... first in the weight throw and second in the shot put at the NYSCTC championship meet ... SUNYAC Women's Field Athlete of the Year after winning the weight throw and shot put Feb. 23; 16.34 meter weight throw set a meet record ... ECAC Field Athlete of the Week and SUNYAC Field Athlete of the Week after an NCAA automatic-qualifying and conference-record 17.41 20-pound weight throw and a winning shot put Feb. 1 at Rochester Institute of Technology ... part of the winning 4-by-200 meter winning relay team Jan. 26 at the Denison Lidlifter ... also won the shot put at Denison.
Previous seasons: 2007 All-American in the 20-pound weight throw by finishing sixth at the NCAA Championship meet at Terre Haute, Ind. ... set SUNYAC weight throw record at 2007 ECAC Championships with winning throw of 54' 6 1/2'' .... NCAA provisional qualifier in weight throw as a freshman ... won 2006 SUNYAC title and provisionally qualified for NCAAs in hammerthrow (154' 1") ... defended hammerthrow title in 2007 and also won 2007 SUNYAC shot put title outdoors ... ran cross country in the fall of 2007. Personal: All-league and all-county while participating at Arlington H.S. ... graphic design major ... daughter of Robert Hopson and the late Bernadette Hopson.