5 Named To XC/T&F Academic All-District Team
Men | Women
The 2017-18 College of Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA)/Google Cloud Academic All-District Men's & Women's Cross Country/Track & Field Teams were released on May 29th with five student-athletes from the Empire 8 being named to a first team.
Four of the five honorees were male student-athletes, including Stevens Institute of Technology junior Alex Kainer and senior Nick Zickgraf in District II and St. John Fisher College seniors Peter Girardi and Mark VanMarter both being named to the first team in District III.
On the women's side, Stevens sophomore Gina Dello Russo were first-team selections in District II.
First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the Google Cloud Academic All-America® ballot, with first- and second-team Academic All-America® honorees to be announced in June.
The Division II and III Google Cloud Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2017-18 DII and DIII Academic All-America® teams.