Toto is Eaves Scholarship winner

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South's Toto is Ga.'s Eaves Scholarship winner
Julianne Toto has made the grade in the classroom and in pole vaulting at the University of Georgia, Athens.

The Middletown South High School graduate was the winner of the 2008-09 Joel Eaves Scholar AthleteAward given out by the University of Georgia Athletic Association. The award goes to the male and female student-athletes with the highest grade-point average entering their senior year. She and the male winner, golfer Michael Green, received their awards at halftime of Georgia's season-opening football game against Georgia Southern.

The Joel Eaves Scholar Athlete Award is given in memory of Coach Joel Eaves, UGA's director of athletics from 1963 to 1979.

Toto has a 3.71 GPA and is majoring in psychology. She made the SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll and was named to the 2007 U.S. Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association Division I Women's All-Academic Track and Field Team.

She ranks fifth all-time in school history in the outdoor and indoor pole vault with a personal best 12-9½. She was ninth at the outdoor Southeast Conference (SEC) Championships last spring. During the 2008 outdoor season, she won the Bulldog Limited and was third at the Georgia Invitational. Indoors, she was first at the Clemson Invitational, second at the Tom Jones Classic, third at the Virginia Tech Elite and 11th at the SEC. Her freshman and sophomore seasons, Toto qualified for the NCAA East Regional Championships. She was sixth at the outdoor SEC in '07.


At Middletown South, Toto was a nationally ranked pole vaulter, placing seventh at the Nike Indoor Nationals. She won NJSIAA Group State titles for the Eagles and was the Penn Relays champion. Her high school best was 12-6.