Marshall University Athletics
Marshall Men's Cross Country Team Earns Academic Honor
2/22/2007 12:00:00 AM | Cross Country
Feb. 22, 2007
Metairie, La. - Marshall University's men's cross country team has been honored by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) as one of the organization's Division I Men's All-Academic Teams.
A total of 86 teams received Division I Men's All-Academic Cross Country Team honors for the 2006 season. To be honored as an All-Academic Team, teams must compete in an NCAA regional meet and have at least a cumulative team GPA of 3.0.
The 2006 Thundering Herd men posted a cumulative team GPA of 3.279.
Iona finished third in the national championship and has a team maintaining a cumulative team grade point average of 3.170. Their success in both venues earns them the singular honor of 2006 NCAA Division I All-Academic Men's Cross Country Team of the Year.
The All-Academic Men's Cross Country Team of the Year is awarded to the highest-finishing school at the NCAA Championships that meets All-Academic team qualifications (a minimum 3.00 cumulative GPA during the 2006 fall term).
Stanford's Neftalem Araia, the second-place individual finisher at the NCAA Championships, is the Division I All-Academic Men's Cross Country Athlete of the Year.
USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic Men's Cross Country Teams (cumulative team GPAs in parentheses)
Team of the Year: Iona College (3.170)Air Force Academy 3.097Alabama, University of 3.178Arizona State University 3.070Arkansas Little Rock, University of 3.470Belmont University 3.300Binghamton University 3.205Boston University 3.070Bradley University 3.197Brown University 3.490Bucknell University 3.180Brigham Young University 3.280Central Michigan University 3.275Cincinnati, University of 3.330Colgate University 3.310College of William & Mary 3.030Cornell University 3.160Dartmouth College 3.180Davidson College 3.150Dayton, University of 3.327Delaware, University of 3.040Detroit Mercy, University of 3.327Drake University 3.485East Tennessee State University 3.110Eastern Kentucky University 3.186Eastern Washington University 3.290Evansville, University of 3.320Florida, University of 3.205George Mason University 3.230Georgia, University of 3.080Harvard University 3.312Hofstra University 3.055Idaho State University 3.090Idaho, University of 3.185Illinois, University of 3.157Indiana State University 3.390Indiana University 3.060Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne 3.200Iowa State University 3.500Iowa, University of 3.060Jacksonville State University 3.200Jacksonville State University 3.200Liberty University 3.205Loyola College, Maryland 3.198Loyola Marymount University 3.170Manhattan College 3.126Marshall University 3.279Miami University (Ohio) 3.280Miami, University of 3.340Michigan State University 3.080Minnesota, University of 3.100Missouri, University of 3.406Monmouth University 3.242Montana State University 3.490New Hampshire, University of 3.080North Carolina State University 3.250Notre Dame, University of 3.262Ohio State University 3.325Ohio University 3.247Oklahoma State University 3.442Penn State University 3.310Pittsburgh, University of 3.147Portland, University of 3.296Richmond, University of 3.260Rutgers University 3.311Sacred Heart University 3.054Siena College 3.050South Dakota State University 3.373Stanford University 3.343Tennessee, University of 3.170Texas Christian University 3.080Texas El Paso, University of 3.150Texas Tech University 3.090Texas, University of 3.066UCLA 3.212Utah State, University of 3.110Valparaiso University 3.019Vanderbilt University 3.400Vermont, University of 3.274Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University 3.250Virginia, University of 3.007Washington State University 3.110Washington, University of 3.170Weber State University 3.540Western Kentucky University 3.120Wright State University 3.707Yale University 3.530
