The NCAA News - News and Features

May 19, 1997

III men's and women's all-academic cross country teams named

Eight of the top 10 women's teams and seven of the top 10 men's teams from the 1996 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships are among Division III teams receiving all-academic team honors in cross country.

The honors program is sponsored by the Division III Cross Country Coaches Association.

To qualify for all-academic honors, a team must have a combined grade-point average of at least 3.000 (4.000 scale) during the fall semester and compete at an NCAA regional meet.

Wisconsin-Oshkosh, which claimed the 1996 women's team title, and Wisconsin-La Crosse, which won the 1996 men's title, headline the all-academic teams. Wisconsin-Oshkosh, which has finished among the top two teams at seven of the last 10 championships, posted a combined GPA of 3.090, while Wisconsin-La Crosse, which claimed its first team title in 1996, accumulated a team GPA of 3.020.

Men's teams that received all-academic honors and finished among the top 10 at the 1996 championships include Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Williams, Calvin, Tufts, Haverford and Augustana (Illinois); women's teams include St. Thomas (Minnesota), College of New Jersey, Calvin, Williams, Loras, St. Olaf and Wisconsin-La Crosse.

In all, a record 117 women's teams and 79 men's teams were honored. Emory posted the highest grade-point average (3.880) of any women's team, while Macalester posted the highest grade-point average (3.760) among men's teams.

Sixty-three institutions had both men's and women's teams honored. MIT had the best combination: The men's team had the third-best GPA (3.600) and the women's team had the sixth-best (3.720).

Following are the 1996 Division III men's and women's cross country all-academic teams:

Men

Macalester, 3.760; Carleton, 3.690; MIT, 3.600; Capital, 3.550; St. John's (Minnesota), 3.510; Heidelberg, 3.480; Hope, 3.460; Baldwin-Wallace, 3.450; Albion, 3.440; Bethel (Minnesota), 3.440.

Wabash, 3.440; Colorado College, 3.420; Washington (Missouri), 3.420; Augustana (Illinois), 3.410; Williams, 3.410; Wittenberg, 3.410; Hunter, 3.400; Luther, 3.380; Otterbein, 3.370; Middlebury, 3.360.

Alma, 3.350; Kalamazoo, 3.350; Grinnell, 3.330; Buena Vista, 3.320; Rowan, 3.320; Connecticut College, 3.310; St. Norbert, 3.310; Western Maryland, 3.310; Cal Tech, 3.300; Bates, 3.290.

Calvin, 3.290; Earlham, 3.290; St. Mary's (Minnesota), 3.290; Anderson (Indiana), 3.280; Chicago, 3.280; Springfield, 3.280; Tufts, 3.280; Hamline, 3.270; Occidental, 3.270; UC San Diego, 3.270.

Wilmington (Ohio), 3.270; DePauw, 3.260; Franklin & Marshall, 3.250; Haverford, 3.250; Washington and Lee, 3.250; Drew, 3.240; Oberlin, 3.240; Rose-Hulman, 3.240; Augsburg, 3.200; Stevens Tech, 3.200.

Trinity (Texas), 3.200; North Park, 3.190; St. Lawrence, 3.180; Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 3.180; Babson, 3.170; Manchester, 3.160; Roanoke, 3.150; Loras, 3.140; Benedictine (Illinois), 3.120; Binghamton, 3.120.

Scranton, 3.120; Ithaca, 3.110; Vassar, 3.110; Wesleyan, 3.110; Emory, 3.100; Kenyon, 3.100; Rhodes, 3.090; York (Pennsylvania), 3.090; Dickinson, 3.080; Hanover, 3.080.

Wartburg, 3.080; Grove City, 3.070; Gustavus Adolphus, 3.070; Messiah, 3.060; Marywood, 3.040; Salisbury State, 3.040; Wisconsin-La Crosse, 3.020; Muhlenberg, 3.010; Rochester Institute of Technology, 3.000.

Women

Emory, 3.880; Kalamazoo, 3.750; Thiel, 3.750; Salisbury State, 3.730; Wellesley, 3.730; MIT, 3.720; Drew, 3.690; Gustavus Adolphus, 3.650; Cal Tech, 3.620; Loras, 3.620.

Luther, 3.610; Maryville (Missouri), 3.600; Anderson (Indiana), 3.590; Kenyon, 3.590; Baldwin-Wallace, 3.580; Colorado College, 3.580; Stevens Tech, 3.580; Wartburg, 3.580; Hope, 3.570; Mount Holyoke, 3.570.

Bethel (Minnesota), 3.550; Martin Luther, 3.540; Rochester, 3.540; Wisconsin-La Crosse, 3.540; Augustana (Illinois), 3.520; Occidental, 3.520; Calvin, 3.510; Bryn Mawr, 3.490; Rose-Hulman, 3.490; Grinnell, 3.480.

Williams, 3.480; Wesleyan, 3.470; Case Reserve, 3.460; Defiance, 3.460; Ithaca, 3.460; North Central, 3.460; Bates, 3.440; Lebanon Valley, 3.440; Scranton, 3.440; Tufts, 3.440.

Franklin, 3.430; Simpson, 3.430; St. Catherine, 3.420; St. Thomas (Minnesota), 3.420; Haverford, 3.410; Wooster, 3.410; Bethany (West Virginia), 3.400; Carthage, 3.390; Manchester, 3.380; St. Olaf, 3.380.

Macalester, 3.370; Muhlenberg, 3.370; North Park, 3.370; Regis (Massachusetts), 3.370; Pomona-Pitzer, 3.360; Wilmington (Ohio), 3.360; Alma, 3.350; Oberlin, 3.350; Simmons, 3.350; Goucher, 3.340.

Washington and Lee, 3.330; Monmouth (Illinois), 3.320; Rhodes, 3.320; St. Mary's (Minnesota), 3.320; St. Benedict, 3.310; Carleton, 3.300; DePauw, 3.300; Hamline, 3.300; Concordia-Moorhead, 3.290; Hartwick, 3.290.

Richard Stockton, 3.290; Vassar, 3.290; Hamilton, 3.280; Binghamton, 3.270; Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 3.270; Western Maryland, 3.260; Mills, 3.250; UC San Diego, 3.240; Connecticut Col., 3.230; Penn State-Behrend, 3.230.

Trinity (Texas), 3.230; Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 3.210; John Carroll, 3.210; Wisconsin-Whitewater, 3.210; Buena Vista, 3.190; Denison, 3.180; Middlebury, 3.180; Plattsburgh State, 3.180; Gettysburg, 3.170; Washington (Missouri), 3.170.

Redlands, 3.160; Juniata, 3.150; Heidelberg, 3.140; Springfield, 3.140; Brockport State, 3.140; Colby, 3.130; Hanover, 3.130; Wisconsin-Superior, 3.120; Frostburg State, 3.110; Ursinus, 3.110.

Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 3.090; Wisconsin-Platteville, 3.090; Benedictine (Illinois), 3.080; Oswego State, 3.070; Sewanee (University of the South) 3.070; Franklin & Marshall, 3.060; Southern Maine, 3.050; Westfield State, 3.050; Carroll (Wisconsin), 3.040; Lynchburg, 3.040.

College of New Jersey, 3.030; Dickinson, 3.020; Rowan, 3.020; St. Norbert, 3.020; Albion, 3.010; Grove City, 3.000; William Smith, 3.000.