2014 Capital One Academic All-America® Track & Field/Cross Country Teams release dates: 
College Division Team: release/teams
NCAA Division III Team: below
NCAA Division II Team: Wed., June 25
NCAA Division I Team: Thr., June 26
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AUSTIN, Texas –
Senior Michael LeDuc of Connecticut College and
graduate student Christy Cazzola of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh headline the 2013-14 Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Men’s and Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
LeDuc and Cazzola have been selected as the NCAA Division III Academic All-America® of the Year award winners for the men’s and women’s track and field/cross country programs, respectively.
The Capital One Division III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2013-14 Division III Academic All-America® teams program.
A botany major with a 3.80 grade-point average from Canton, Connecticut,
LeDuc earned Capital One Academic All-America® honors for the third time. He was a first-team honoree last year and third-team honoree in 2012. LeDuc earned three NCAA championships during his career, winning the 3,000-meter steeplechase crowns in both 2013 and 2014 and the cross country national crown in 2013.
A nine-time All-American in cross country and track and field, LeDuc was named as the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Athlete of the Year in men’s cross country in 2013. LeDuc won the men’s steeplechase title at the NCAA Outdoor Championship with the third-fastest time in Division III history, an 8:45.77 time. He was recognized with the school’s Anita L. DeFrantz Senior Athletic Award in 2014.
Cazzola, a distance runner, finished her collegiate career with 17 NCAA Division III titles, including six this year. The Kaukauna, Wisconsin, native won eight indoor track & field titles, eight outdoor track & field titles and the 2012 cross country championship.
Cazzola was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's National Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year for the second straight season. She also was named the Outstanding Track Performer at the NCAA Division III indoor and outdoor championships. Her efforts helped UW-Oshkosh repeat as the indoor team champion.
Cazzola, who compiled a 3.40 grade-point average while earning a bachelor's degree in secondary education, was named the 2014 Honda Division III Athlete of the Year by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards. She is also a nominee for the 2014 NCAA Woman of the Year.
LeDuc and Cazzola are two of five track and field/cross country student-athletes (three women, two men) to earn Capital One Academic All-America® honors three times in their careers.
Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Men's Track & FIeld/Cross Country Team
Senior Johnny Rutford of Nebraska Wesleyan University repeats as a first-team selection, after earning third-team honors in 2012. An accounting major with a 3.96 G.P.A. from Lincoln, Nebraska, Rutford completed his eligibility in 2013 in cross country by earning his third straight trip to the NCAA Division III National Championship. He was the runner-up in the Great Plains Athletic Conference Championship, while earning All-Central Region honors for the third straight year. He was a four-time GPAC track and field champion and 11-time All-GPAC honoree. Rutford has earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
Rutford is joined on the first-team by
Nebraska Wesleyan teammate Brock Taute, a junior from Bertrand, Nebraska, and a physics major with a 3.98 G.P.A. Taute earned the Elite 89 Award at the 2014 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field National Championship, qualifying in the mile run. Taute finished 10th in the steeplechase at the Division III Outdoor Championship, while earning GPAC titles in the indoor mile, indoor 3,000-meter run and outdoor steeplechase this season. He is a 10-time All-GPAC track and field performer, and earned the NAIA national Duer Scholarship award as the top junior athlete in all sports.
Augustana (Illinois) College has two student-athletes on the first team --
senior Josh Eisenberg and junior David Voland. Both are now two-time Academic All-America® honorees, after each earned third-team honors last season.
A biology/pre-medicine major with a 3.96 G.P.A. from Spring Grove, Illinois,
Eisenberg earned trips to the NCAA championships in the indoor heptathlon and the outdoor decathlon, finishing 12th in the heptathlon and 15th in the decathlon. Augustana’s and the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin’s record-holder in the heptathlon, he won the conference title in the event in 2014, one of six All-CCIW honors he earned in his career. He earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in 2014, while also receiving the CCIW’s Jack Swartz Award and Augustana’s Erickson Award.
A math and secondary education major with a 3.81 G.P.A. from Batavia, Illinois,
Voland has earned NCAA All-American honors eight times in his career, five times as a member of the 1,600-meter relay and three times in the 400-meter hurdles. At the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Championship, Voland placed second in both the 400 hurdles and 1,600 relay. He has earned CCIW titles nine times in his career, including three straight times in the 400 hurdles, with a conference record in the event this year. Voland has also earned CCIW Athlete of the Week honors three times in his career.
Wartburg College has two student-athletes on the first team as well --
senior Daniel Bonthius and junior Colt Feltes. Bonthius earned first-team Academic All-America® honors for the second straight year.
Bonthius earned All-America honors in the 800-meter run in 2013 and is a two-time Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion in the event. He earned the NCAA Elite 89 award in 2013. He was the anchor on the 3,200-meter relay squad that broke the school record at the IIAC Championship this season, helping the Knights to a sweep of the indoor and outdoor conference titles. He is a biology major with a 4.00 G.P.A. from Iowa City, Iowa.
Feltes is an accounting and business administration major with a 3.52 G.P.A. from Delhi, Iowa. Feltes won the national title in the shot put at the 2014 Division III Indoor Championship, while placing third in both the shot put and discus at the 2014 Division III Outdoor Championship. He is Wartburg’s first shot put national titlist and first male All-American in the discus, and holds the school record in the shot put, discus and hammer throw. He earned IIAC MVP honors in field events at the indoor conference championships.
Bonthius is one of three first-team Capital One Academic All-America® men’s athletes have perfect 4.00 G.P.A.s, joining
Baldwin Wallace University sophomore Ben Beidleman and Ohio Northern University junior Nathan Rosenbaum. Joining them with 4.00 G.P.A.s are
Hamline University junior Mark Volker, a second-team honoree, and
Colby College junior Brett Sahlberg, a third-team selection.
An economics and accounting major with a 4.00 G.P.A. from Washington, D.C.,
Beidleman earned Division III All-America honors in the outdoor 200-meter dash by finishing eighth. He was also a member of the nation's fastest 4x100-meter relay squad during the regular season that placed ninth at the national meet. Beidleman has earned Ohio Athletic Conference and All-Ohio championships twice each in his career. He is a Dean's List honoree and Jacket Scholar, a member of the Alpha Lambda and Chi Sigma Alpha honoraries and an Academic All-OAC pick.
A mechanical engineering major from Orrville, Ohio,
Rosenbaum earned the Elite 89 award at the 2013 Division III Cross Country Championship. A three-time All-OAC honoree in cross country, he finished eighth at the Division III regional in 2013 to qualify for nationals. In track and field, he claimed OAC titles in the indoor 5,000-meter run and outdoor 10,000-meter run. He has earned Dean’s List honors every semester of his college career.
Tyler Bauer of Muhlenberg College, a junior biology and music major with a 3.94 G.P.A. from Northampton, Pennsylvania, earned Capital One Academic All-America® honors for the second time, after earning second-team honors last year. He earned All-America honors for the second straight year in the javelin, finishing sixth this season after claiming a fifth-place finish last year. The three-time Centennial Conference champion in the javelin, he earned conference championships Most Outstanding Performer honors this year. The school and conference championship record-holder in the event, he earned Centennial Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors.
York (Pa.) College senior Tim Hartung has also earned Academic All-America® honors for the second straight year, after being named as a third-team selection last year. A nursing major with a 3.60 G.P.A. from Mohnton, Pennsylvania, Hartung earned seven Division III All-America honors -- three times in outdoor track, two times in indoor track and two times in cross country. A four-time Capital Athletic Conference titlist in cross country, he earned CAC Runner of the Year honors five times (cross country twice, indoor track twice, outdoor track once), winning conference titles 16 times in all in his career. He has earned CAC All-Academic honors four times and was named the school’s Outstanding Senior Male Athlete.
University of Wisconsin-Stout senior Zach Anderson has earned Capital Academic All-America® honors for the first time. An engineering technology major with a 3.53 G.P.A. from Frederic, Wisconsin, Anderson earned the NCAA Division III title in the indoor heptathlon, while finishing third in the NCAA outdoor decathlon, both with school-record point totals. He earned the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title for the third straight year in the decathlon, while winning the WIAC title in the heptathlon for the second straight year. A two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic selection, he has earned the UW-Stout Chancellor’s Award for Academic Excellence six times.
John Crain of North Central College, a sociology major with a 3.35 G.P.A. from Dunlap, Illinois, has won Division III national titles in distance events four times in his career, including three titles this season -- the indoor 3,000-meter run, indoor 5,000-meter run and outdoor 10,000-meter run. He also finished second in the outdoor 5,000-meter run and second in the cross country national championships during this school year, part of four national runner-up honors in his career. A 10-time All-American, Crain posted the second-fastest time in Division III history this season with a 28:52.73 effort at the Stanford Invitational. He is a 2013 USTFCCCA All-Academic selection in both cross country and track.
University of Mount Union junior Sean Donnelly is an exercise science major with a 3.55 G.P.A. from Willoughby, Ohio. Donnelly dominated the throwing events this year in Division III, winning the hammer throw and shot put titles at the Division III Outdoor Championship, while winning the indoor title in the weight throw with the second-best mark in Division III history. He also placed seventh in the outdoor discus, part of his six career All-American honors. Donnelly earned USTFCCCA National Field Athlete of the Year honors, while earning Outstanding Field Athlete of the Meet honors at both the indoor and outdoor OAC Championships. He won five conference titles in weight events this season, and was part of Mount Union’s team national title in NCAA outdoor competition.
Whitworth University senior Jonathan Hoff is an engineering physics major with a 3.93 G.P.A. from Napa, California. Hoff earned All-America honors with a sixth-place finish in the 110-meter hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championship. He earned Northwest Conference outdoor titles in both the 110-meter hurdles and the long jump. Hoff is a member of both the Laureate Society and the Dean’s Honor Roll at Whitworth.
The 15 members of the Capital One Academic All-America® men’s track and field/cross country first team have an average G.P.A. of 3.79.
Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Women's Track & FIeld/Cross Country Team
Cazzola is one of two graduate students on the 15-woman first team that includes 11 seniors and two juniors. The 15 women on the Capital One Academic All-America® women’s track and field/cross country first team have an average G.P.A. of 3.79, with
Ashley Meadows from Texas Lutheran University and
Lauren Rice from Augsburg College both recording perfect 4.00 G.P.A.s.
Meadows, a molecular biology/chemistry major from Schertz, Texas, is a repeat selection to the Capital One Academic All-America® team after earning third-team honors in 2013. Meadows was part of five conference championships during her career at TLU, including four in track and field.
Rice, a communications major from Minnetonka, Minnesota, was an Elite 89 honoree this winter after earning All-America honors in the 5,000 meters at the 2014 NCAA Division III Indoor Championship and repeated as an All-America in May by finishing fifth in the 10,000 meters at the outdoor championship.
Julie Eagle, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, joins Cazzola as earning Capital Academic All-America® accolades while pursuing graduate studies. Eagle is a Rock Island, Illinois, native and a 3.58 G.P.A. student as a mechanical engineering major.
Eagle earned three All-America honors in her high-jumping career after finishing second in both the 2013 and 2014 Outdoor Championships and third at the 2014 Indoor Championships.
Senior thrower
Breanna Strupp joins Cazzola as a second representative from UW-Oshkosh. An education major with a 3.72 G.P.A., Strupp finished third in the discus at the outdoor championship to earn All-America honors and help her squad to a second place finish at the meet. She is a Slinger, Wisconsin, native.
Washington (Mo.) University also has two representatives on the first team:
senior Anna Etherington and junior Lucy Cheadle.
Etherington, a systems engineering major from Deer Park, Illinois, with a 3.67 G.P.A., won the pole vault national championship at the outdoor championship this spring. A six-time All-America, Etherington posted a school-record 4.15-meter vault to win the title. She is a two-time Capital One Academic All-America®, after having earned second-team accolades in 2013.
Cheadle is also a repeat Capital One Academic All-America® honoree, earning a third-team selection in 2013, and boasts a 3.78 G.P.A. as a chemical engineering major. She is a three-time All-America in cross country and won the national championship this spring in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Indoors, she earned All-America status in both the 3,000- and 5,000-meter races, the latter for the third consecutive year.
Wartburg’s Kayla Hemann can join Cheadle as three-time Capital One Academic All-America® honorees next spring. She was a third-team selection in 2013. An accounting student with a 3.84 G.P.A., from Stacyville, Iowa, Hemann is a three-time All-America in outdoor track after finishing fourth this spring in the shot put. In 2013, she posted a runner-up performance in the shot and a fourth-place showing in the discus.
Williams College's Amina Avril, who earned a 3.32 G.P.A. as a political science major, adds her first team Capital One Academic All-America® accolade to the eight All-America honors she earned in throwing events in her career. This year, the Decatur, Georgia, native won the weight throw at the indoor championship and the hammer throw outdoors with school record tosses of 20.01 and 58.52 meters, respectively. Avril also previously earned All-America honors in the discus.
Heather Gearity, from Montclair State University, graduated last month with a 3.85 G.P.A. as a biology major. A hurdler, Gearity earned a pair of All-America honors at the outdoor championships with a fourth-place showing in the 400 meter hurdles and by running the leadoff leg in the 4 x 400 meter relay. That squad finished seventh. Gearity, a Rutherford, New Jersey native, is now a three-time Capital One Academic All-America®.
Oberlin College’s Molly Martorella was a biochemistry/neuroscience double major and finished her academic career with a 3.87 G.P.A. The Winchendon, Massachusetts, product earned cross country All-America honors during her career and capped her outdoor track participation last month by competing in both the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races at the outdoor championships.
Martorella led Oberlin to four NCAC cross country crowns and was named to the NCAC All-Decade team in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. Martorella is now a three-time Academic All-America®.
Hope College senior Sheri McCormack, from Holland, Michigan, stayed in her hometown to go to Hope and made the most of it as the Spanish major became the first-ever Hope student-athlete to earn All-America honors in the 1,500 meters with her sixth place finish at the outdoor championship. An NCAA postgraduate scholarship winner who finished with a 3.91 G.P.A., McCormick is headed to dental school at the University of Michigan in the fall.
Calvin College senor Nicole Michmerhuizen is also a Holland, Michigan, native and posted a 3.99 G.P.A. as a chemical engineering/biochemistry major. Like McCormick, Michmerhuizen earned an NCAA postgraduate scholarship that she will use at Michigan. Michmerhuizen will pursue a doctorate degree in pharmacology at UM.
Now a three-time Capital One Academic All-America® selection, having earned third-team honors in 2012 and first-team accolades last year, Michmerhuizen won the 2013 national championship in the 10,000 meters and was the runner-up this season. Additionally, she was second at the 2013 indoor championship in the 5,000 meters and won the 2012 MIAA Cross Country Championship by 17 seconds.
The final two first-team honorees,
Widener University senior Erica Szpynda and
senior Grace Tilton of
Rensselaer Polytechnic, both graduated with 3.97 G.P.A.s.
Szpynda, from Berwick, Pennsylvania, was an economics/accounting double major. A thrower, Szpynda was recently named as the Track and Field Performer of the Year by the Philadelphia Inquirer after earning All-America honors in the shot put last month at the outdoor championship.
Szpynda made three trips to the NCAA Championships, was named as Widener’s President’s Award winner for her contributions to campus life and served as Student Government Association President in her senior year.
Tilton, from Concord, New Hampshire, was an aeronautical engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She earned All-America honors indoors in the mile run with a fourth place showing at the 2014 NCAA Division III Indoor Championship.
In cross country, Tilton won three meets during in her senior season, including the Liberty League Championship, and was named as the USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Runner of the Year.
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