Cross Country Earns Fourth Straight AAC Team Academic Excellence Award
Jul 20 | Cross Country
IRVING, Texas (The American/SMU) -Â SMU cross country earned its fourth straight American Athletic Conference Team Excellence Award, the conference office announced Thursday.Â
All 10 members of the SMU cross country team garnered Academic All-AAC Honors leading to their conference-leading GPA: Jessie Crowley, Kaitlyn Gearin, Macey Hilton, Maddie Hulcy, Lior Kremer, Leoni Mierswa, Mia Olsen, Nikoleta Rafailaki, Alanis Robineau Fauvey and Kendall Saeger. The team also earned its fifth straight Pony Award for the Highest Women's Team GPA.Â
On the course in 2022, the team finished second in the American Athletic Conference, won the Gerald Richey Invite and placed fifth at the NCAA South Central Regional. It marked the best AAC finish for SMU since 2017. Hulcy and Gearin both earned All-AAC and All-Region honors.
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The AAC Team Academic Excellence Award selections are made by the conference's faculty athletics representatives. The winning teams were chosen based on the 2022-23 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution's roster at the end of the academic year, weighing each student's GPA by credit-hour completed.
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All 10 members of the SMU cross country team garnered Academic All-AAC Honors leading to their conference-leading GPA: Jessie Crowley, Kaitlyn Gearin, Macey Hilton, Maddie Hulcy, Lior Kremer, Leoni Mierswa, Mia Olsen, Nikoleta Rafailaki, Alanis Robineau Fauvey and Kendall Saeger. The team also earned its fifth straight Pony Award for the Highest Women's Team GPA.Â
On the course in 2022, the team finished second in the American Athletic Conference, won the Gerald Richey Invite and placed fifth at the NCAA South Central Regional. It marked the best AAC finish for SMU since 2017. Hulcy and Gearin both earned All-AAC and All-Region honors.
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The AAC Team Academic Excellence Award selections are made by the conference's faculty athletics representatives. The winning teams were chosen based on the 2022-23 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution's roster at the end of the academic year, weighing each student's GPA by credit-hour completed.
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