DETROIT (7/1/2025) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's track and field team saw graduate senior Simon Jones, junior Raeed Monnan and sophomore Joshua Neary named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® for Men's Cross Country/Track & Field.
Jones, a Business major, scored for the Titans in the decathlon with 5,071 points. He also tallied 5,641 points at the Davenport Invitational, ranking 22nd in the Great Lakes, and was 36th in the region with a 46.98-meter throw in the javelin at the Horizon League Championships. His 4,247 points in the heptathlon was also 24th.
Another Business major, Neary earned points for the Titans at the Horizon League Championships, taking third in the decathlon with 5,640 points - 23rd in the region - and seventh in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 57.56. His PR of 57.13 in the 400mH at the Jesse Owens Classic ranked 33rd, and in the indoor campaign, his 4,327 points at the league meet ranked 23rd in the region.
A Financial Economics major, Monnan set a career best with a leap of 1.86m in the high jump at the Don Kleinow Memorial Invitational, tied for 49th 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.
