Ball State University Athletics
Cross Country Team Earns All-Academic Honor
February 27, 2008 | Track & Field
NEW ORLEANS, La. ? The Ball State cross country team has been named as a USTFCCCA Division 1 Women's Cross Country All-Academic Team award recipient, as announced Tuesday, Feb. 26 by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Ball State was ranked 12th nationally with an overall team GPA of 3.62.
In all, 158 Division I women's programs received the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honor. There are 325 teams in Division I that sponsor women's cross country. Of the 158 teams on the list, 35 of them had team GPAs over 3.50. South Florida, from the Big East Conference, led all schools with a team GPA of 3.78.
For a team to be considered for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team award, they must have competed and compiled a team score at an NCAA Regional Meet. The team must also have a minimum 3.00 team cumulative grade point average.
The Big 12 Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference had the most programs on the All-Academic Team list with ten apiece. The Big East Conference, Big Ten Conference and the Missouri Valley Conference each had nine teams on the list.
