Women's track team lands academic honors

Tiffin University's women's track and field team has been named an All-Academic Team by the USTFCCCA.
Tiffin University's women's track and field team has been named an All-Academic Team by the USTFCCCA.

Tiffin University's women's track and field team has been named an All-Academic Team by the USTFCCCA.

All-Academic Teams for the 2023 NCAA Division II Men's Track & Field seasons were announced on Thursday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Here is the criteria for a team be named an NCAA Division II All-Academic Team:

  • The cumulative GPA (not 2022-23 academic year, not semester) for all student-athletes on the institution's NCAA Squad List for Indoor and/or Outdoor Track and Field must be 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale, certifiable by the institution's registrar. Institutions utilizing a different GPA scale must convert the GPA to a 4.0 scale using the standard conversion method [GPA/Scale x 4.0].
  • Transfer students and/or graduate students are to include only grades earned at the current nominating institution.

In addition, seven Dragons were named as individual Academic Athletes. They are:

Rajiah Andrews -Humanities Communications
Brook Boes - Exercise Science
C'airra Carter - Exercise Science
Emily Curtice -Marketing
Lily Hollibaugh - Government and National Security
Ines Macadam - Sport Management
Samantha Smith - Psychology:Human Services

Here is the criteria to be named an NCAA Division II All-Academic Athlete: 

  • Minimum cumulative grade point average of a 3.25 on a 4.0 scale through the end of the semester of competition. Institutions utilizing a different GPA scale must convert the GPA to a 4.0 scale using the standard conversion method [GPA/Scale x 4.0]. Data must be certifiable by the institution's registrar.
  • Must have completed at least 24 semester hours/36 quarter hours through the end of the semester of competition at the institution.
  • Transfer students and/or graduate students are to include only grades earned at the current nominating institution.
  • The student-athlete must have achieved an automatic or provisional qualifying mark (individual or relay event) for either the indoor season or outdoor season.