Four Earn CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-District Honors
Women's Track & Field/Cross Country All-Academic Team
Men's Track & Field/Cross Country All-Academic Team
Four Empire 8 track & field/cross country student athletes have been named to the Captial One CoSIDA Academic All-America Teams.
Stevens Institute of Technology juniors Amira Dardir and Robert Pinto represented the E8 on the District 2 team, while Ithaca College graduate student Jenn Randall and junior Dennis Ryan were selected to District 3.
Dardir competed in all three sports seasons at Stevens and holds a 3.86 grade-point average in Chemical Engineering. She particularly shined this year at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships, where she was an All-American in the high jump with a sixth place finish at 1.69 meters. Dardir played a crucial role in the team's 10th place finish at nationals, which is a program best showing. At the ECAC Outdoor Championships, Dardir placed third overall in the heptathlon with 3,927 points. She is also the school record holder in the pentathlon (3,070) and heptathlon (4,172).
Randall was selected to District 3 and earns the honor for the third consecutive year. A two-time track & field all-American, Randall ran to cross country all-America honors at the 2013 NCAA Championships with a 12th-place finish out of 280 runners. She clocked a time of 21:37.70 on the six-kilometer course. Randall placed fourth overall at the NCAA Atlantic Region Championships tallying all-region recognition. Named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team, Randall had a team-best 6K time of 21:24.60.
Pinto is a Computer Engineering major with a 3.84 GPA and became the first male student-athlete in program history to qualify for the DIII Indoor Championships this past winter. He owns the indoor school record in the high jump at 2.08 meters which he set this season. During the indoor season, Pinto put together a string of four consecutive meet victories in the high jump from February 1 to March 8. Within that four-meet stretch, Pinto claimed titles in the Empire 8 and ECAC Championships.
During the cross country season, Ryan clocked the third-best 8,000-meter time on the team. Named to the Empire 8 First Team, Ryan finished third overall at the conference championships. He earned Second-Team All-NYSCTC honors with an 11th-place finish and was selected to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team. During the T&F seasons, Ryan clocked team-best times in the indoor 4x800, DMR, 800 and 1,000 and outdoor 4x800 and 1,500. A three-time All-ECAC and four-time All-NYSCTC finisher in 2013-14, Ryan was the runner-up in the indoor 800 run at the Empire 8 Championships.