SEATTLE – The awards keep coming in for Jessica Pixler.

The 12-time NCAA cross country and track champion from Seattle Pacific, who now has started her graduate work at the University of Colorado, has been named the NCAA Division II Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the Division II Conference Commissioners Association.

Pixler, who was selected from a field of eight regional winners, is the first national winner from the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in the 11-year history of the award.

Of Pixler's 12 national titles, four came during her senior year in 2009-10: cross country (her third straight), the indoor track mile (her fourth in a row), the indoor track distance medley relay, on which she ran the anchor leg, and the outdoor track 1,500 meters (her third).

Her other NCAA crown was in the indoor 5,000 meters as a junior in the winter of 2009.

Pixler was the first woman in any NCAA division to win three straight cross country titles.

She also was a standout in the classroom, compiling a 3.93 grade-point average as an English major. She was a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American. And, Pixler was the first Seattle Pacific athlete to win the school's Ron Grady Athlete of the Year award four consecutive times.

Pixler is one of 30 finalists for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, which will be announced next month.