New Orleans, La. - America East indoor and outdoor track and field teams continue to bring in the academic honors as five schools earned All-Academic distinction by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The USTFCCCA announced the teams this morning.
To be tabbed an All-Academic team, a squad must post a collective 3.0 grade point average or better.
Four America East women’s teams and one men’s squad were able to meet such criteria and find themselves on the list of all-academic teams.
Both the men’s and women’s squads from the University of Vermont earned All-Academic status. The Catamount men tallied a 3.11 GPA while the women posted a GPA of 3.34. Vermont captured its seventh straight America East Academic Cup, and its eighth overall, earlier this summer for compiling a student-athlete GPA of 3.17.
Joining the UVM women are the University at Albany, the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire. The Wildcats finished the 2011 campaign with a 3.43 GPA, which was tops in the conference among women’s track and field teams. UNH, as a school, also came in just behind Vermont in the final Academic Cup standings. Maine, meanwhile, had a team GPA of 3.42. Albany, the defending conference champion in indoor and outdoor track and field, earned a cumulative 3.07 GPA.
In total, 90 men’s and 164 women’s teams across the country earned All-Academic team status.