Women's Cross Country 06.18.24

Four Titans Earn Praise On CSC Academic All-District Team

Women's Cross Country 06.18.24

Four Titans Earn Praise On CSC Academic All-District Team

DETROIT (6/18/2024) -- Four members of the University of Detroit Mercy women's track and field and cross country team were honored for their all-around work as student-athletes as graduate senior Allison Sherman and sophomores Jada Clark, Zoe Morris and Gracelyn Peebles were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® for Women's Cross Country/Track & Field.

Sherman - the President's Award winner who earned master's in Electrical Engineering - was First Team All-Horizon League after taking seventh at the league championships. She also claimed third in the 5,000-meters and 10,000m at the outdoor championships as fourth in the 3,000m and 5,000m at the indoor meet, ranking in the top 35 in the Great Lakes Region in the 5,000m and 10,000m.

A Business Administration major, Clark scored in the high jump taking sixth in 1.56m at the Horizon League Indoor Championships, ranking 50th in the Great Lakes Region.

Morris, a Nursing major, was fifth in the high jump at the Horizon League Outdoor Championships and sixth in the indoor, putting up top 50 region marks in both campaigns.

Peebles registered points in the 400-meter hurdles earning seventh and ran a leg on the seventh-place 4x100 and 4x400 at the Horizon League Outdoor Championships, with her top time in the 400mH sitting 37th in the Great Lakes Region.

CSC recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the track, in the field, and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes men's track & field honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.

The criteria include:

Academic standing:

Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically.
Student-athletes must be enrolled at their institution at the time of nomination either as undergraduates or graduate students. Only the school at which an athlete competed in the current academic year can nominate that player.
Student-athletes who have graduated from their own institution during the current academic year and are not competing in athletics at another institution at the time of nomination are eligible.
NEW in 2023-24- TRANSFER STUDENT-ATHLETES: The 12-month residency requirement for undergraduate transfers is no longer required. If your transfer student-athletes (undergraduates or graduates) are in their first semester at your institution, you must use their cumulative undergraduate GPA and cumulative graduate GPA (if grad GPA is applicable) from their former institution - which meets the 3.50 cumulative GPA - to be considered for Academic All-District/Academic All-America status. This would be the GPA or GPAs they used when gaining admittance to your institution. If your transfer student-athlete has a GPA at your institution, then you take the COMBINED cumulative GPA (from all institutions) and use that in your nomination process. (You cannot just select their GPA at your institution to date.)

Academic eligibility:

An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).
A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established graduate GPA.
The cumulative grade point average may not be rounded up to 3.50.

Athletic eligibility M/W Track & Field/Cross Country:

Eligible nominees will be based off of TFRRS performance list rankings at the time of nomination. Note: ONLY INDIVIDUAL TOP 50 PERFORMANCES ARE TO BE USED FOR ELIGIBILITY. If a student-athlete has participated in a RELAY EVENT which is ranked in the Top 50, that can bolster a nomination but the basic criteria to be met is for INDIVIDUAL performances. You cannot use a relay Top 50 performance as the basis for eligibility.
NCAA institutions: Top 50 in the region in a single event (XC, indoor or outdoor) - must be an individual performance, not a relay performance indoor or outdoor track
For Cross Country eligibility: Student-athletes must have had a Top 50 individual performance at the 2023 NCAA or NAIA regional competition to be eligible.

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Players Mentioned

Jada Clark: Jumps; Sophomore

Zoe Morris: Sprints; Sophomore

Gracelyn Peebles: Hurdles/Sprints; Sophomore

Allison Sherman: Distance; Graduate Student

Players Mentioned

Jada Clark
: Sophomore
: Jumps

Zoe Morris
: Sophomore
: Sprints

Gracelyn Peebles
: Sophomore
: Hurdles/Sprints

Allison Sherman
: Graduate Student
: Distance