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Somerset, NJ – The awards keep coming for Zachary Spector (Yaphank, NY/Longwood) who has been named to the 2013 Northeast Conference Men's Track & Field Scholar Athlete of the Year.

Spector, alongside two student-athletes from Fairleigh Dickinson, Mount St. Mary's and Saint Francis U, along with one apiece from Bryant, Central Connecticut, LIU Brooklyn, Monmouth, Robert Morris, Sacred Heart and Wagner comprise the 2013 Spring Scholar-Athlete award winners for the NEC.

All scholar-athlete award winners earned a minimum of 60 semester hours at their institution, maintained a minimum cumulative grade-point-average of 3.20 and participated with distinction as a member of a varsity team.

The graduate student from Yaphank, NY made the most of his fifth year of eligibility, claiming the men's outdoor track and field scholar-athlete award. Spector won the 10,000 meters at the NEC Championship meet in May, clocking in at 32:04.84, nearly nine seconds in front of his closest competitor. 

He nearly pulled off a double, finishing second in the 5,000 meters, less than two seconds behind the Mount's Thomas Gruschow. Spector's 18 points helped boost Wagner to a sixth place finish, the program's best showing since 1992. 

An IC4A qualifier in the 10K, the Yaphank, NY product was named to the Capital One Academic All-District team, the lone Seahawk to earn the honor in the 2012-13 academic year. Spector finished with a 3.66 undergraduate grade point average as a Business Administration major. Now pursuing his MBA at Wagner, he posted a 3.84 GPA in grad school this past year.