NEW ORLEANS – The App State males’s and girls’s cross nation groups collected All-Academic Team accolades from the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). This 12 months’s accolade is the ladies’s fifteenth consecutive honor courting again to 2010 and is the boys’s ninth consecutive honor.
The girls’s staff recorded a cumulative GPA of three.65, whereas the boys posted a cumulative GPA of three.33. Individually, 14 Mountaineers appeared on the Chancellor’s List and 10 Mountaineers made the Dean’s List.
For a second consecutive season, the Mountaineers swept the Sun Belt staff titles, turning into the second program in SBC historical past to comb the boys’s and girls’s titles in back-to-back years. In the boys’s race, all 5 of App State’s scorers completed among the many prime 9, scoring 32 factors, and all eight runners collected all-conference accolades. In the ladies’s race, 4 of App State’s scorers completed among the many prime 21 to earn all-conference honors. For a 3rd consecutive 12 months, Brad Herbster was named Sun Belt Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year and for a second-straight 12 months Annie Richards was named Sun Belt Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year. At the NCAA Southeast Regional, the boys’s squad positioned sixteenth total, whereas the ladies’s staff completed twenty second within the staff standings.
Teams should keep a cumulative GPA of three.0 or greater on a 4.0 scale, together with the newest grading interval to qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team distinction.