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Maryann Gong of MIT Repeats As NCAA Division III Academic All-America® of the Year
MIT national track and field champion and two-time CoSIDA NCAA Division III Academic All-America® of the Year
Maryann Gong has been voted the 2017 NCAA
#Elite90 Fan Favorite.
Gong is a 2017 graduate who carried a 4.0 GPA in electrical engineering and computer science.
This is the second year that the NCAA has run its highly-successful #Elite90 Fan Favorite Contest.
The
NCAA Elite 90 Academic Recognition Award honors those student-athletes — across all three divisions — who reach the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers. The Elite 90 honor is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA’s 90 championships.
Gong, who received the Elite 90 at this year's NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championship, made it through three rounds of fan voting over the past couple of weeks.
Gong’s list of 2016-17 athletic and academic accolades is staggering. This week, the senior was recognized as the CoSIDA’s overall Division III Academic All-America® of the Year for the second year in a row. In June, she was named the CoSIDA Women's Cross Country/Track and Field Academic All-America® of the Year for D3 — also for the second consecutive year.
She concluded her stellar career as a 15-time NCAA All-American, a 3,000m NCAA Indoor National Champion, a six-time New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Academic All-Conference selection and as MIT's 2017 nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year.
There were six CoSIDA Academic All-America® honorees among the 10 finalists in the #NCAAElite90 Fan Favorite contest. The others were:
Kyle Jasuta (junior volleyball standout, Springfield College), an NCAA Division III Second Team Academic All-America®;
Katie Krick (senior track and field student-athlete from Nebraska Wesleyan), a First Team AAA Division I selection;
Alex McMurtry (junior gymnast at the University of Florida), a First Team Academic All-America® At-Large Team pick in Division I;
Sam Merriman (junior cross country standout, Case Western Reserve), a D3 First Team AAA honoree in cross country/track and field; and
PJ Ransford (junior swimmer, University of Michigan), a First Team Academic All-America® At-Large pick.
Read more about the CoSIDA Academic All-America program
HERE.