George Mason Track & Field Earns USTFCCCA All-Academic Recognition

FAIRFAX, Va. – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) has introduced its 2026 NCAA Division I Track & Field All-Academic Teams and All-Academic Athletes, recognizing people and applications that excelled each academically and competitively.

Both the George Mason males’s and ladies’s monitor & discipline applications earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors. The ladies’s program has now obtained the excellence for 15 consecutive seasons, whereas the lads’s program has earned the award in 14 of the previous 15 years, together with every of the final 11 seasons.

To be acknowledged as a USTFCCCA All-Academic Team, applications should keep a cumulative crew GPA of at the least 3.0. The George Mason ladies posted a 3.47 cumulative GPA, whereas the lads’s crew completed the tutorial 12 months with a 3.15 cumulative GPA.

In addition to the crew honors, 9 Patriots have been named USTFCCCA All-Academic Athletes.

On the ladies’s aspect, Alina Florou-Dimitriadou, Kennedy Drish, and Kailynn Tyson every earned the glory for the second time of their careers. Ella Semple and Abby Weening obtained the popularity for the primary time.

For the lads’s crew, Davian Burke earned All-Academic honors for the second time, whereas Alex DeRoussel, Kellen La Roche, and Jayden Smith every obtained the popularity for the primary time.

To qualify for USTFCCCA All-Academic Individual honors, student-athletes will need to have compiled a cumulative GPA of at the least 3.25. Athletically, recipients will need to have met the group’s efficiency standards throughout the indoor season, the outside season, or each. Indoor qualifiers will need to have completed the 12 months ranked among the many prime 96 nationally in an NCAA championship particular person occasion or among the many prime 48 in a championship relay occasion. Outdoor qualifiers will need to have certified for the NCAA East or West Preliminary Round in a person or relay occasion or completed the season ranked among the many prime 48 within the NCAA East or West area.