MEDFORD, MA (June 19, 2024) - Tufts University has five student-athletes recognized on the 2023-24 Academic All-District® Women's Track & Field / Cross Country Team, selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC). The award recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and academically.
The Jumbos receiving the honor are rising seniors
Jordan Andrew and
Sarah Firth, and 2024 Tufts graduates
Antonia Knoth,
Harper Meek and
Sarah Pillone.
To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a significant contributor to the team with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his current institution. A limit of five nominations per team is set. In Track & Field / Cross Country, nominees must be ranked among the Top 50 in the region in at least one event (XC, indoor or outdoor).
Firth (quantitative economics major) was an indoor and outdoor second team All-American in the pole vault. Pillone (community health) led the team in two events indoors (60 hurldes and triple jump) and outdoors (100 hurdles and long jump), while Andrew (computer science) was the Jumbos' top triple jumper outdoors and long jumper indoors. Meek (biomedical engineering) led the squad in the high jump indoors and Knoth (quantitative economics) was ninth in all of New England in the 400-meter hurdles outdoors.
The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes track & field / cross country honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA. Andrew, Firth and Pillone were selected to advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced July 9.
See the College Sports Communicators 2023-24 Academic All-District® Women's Track & Field / Cross Country Team
HERE (PDF).
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