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Rams’ Jerrell Mock named to Google Cloud Academic All-America Second Team, selected by CoSIDA
6/21/2018 9:59:00 AM | Track & Field
Jerrell Mock is seventh in CSU Athletics history to earn multiple Academic All-America honors
AUSTIN, Texas – Colorado State's Jerrell Mock has been named to the 2018 Google Cloud Division I Men's Cross Country/Track & Field Academic All-America Second Team, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). The organization released the list on Thursday.
Academic All-Americans are selected from a national ballot that includes only the current year's Academic All-District honorees. To be eligible for Google Cloud Academic All-District honors, potential candidates must have a grade-point average of at least 3.3 along with legitimate credentials in athletics. The recipients of Academic All-District honors are then selected by a vote of the district's sports information directors. Colorado State's athletes are designated for CoSIDA's district seven, which includes nine different states.
With Thursday's recognition, Mock becomes the seventh athlete in the history of CSU Athletics to earn Academic All-America distinction multiple times. Mock, who was also an Academic All-American in 2017, is also the first to earn multiple honors for CSU in any sport since 2006.
Mock, a senior from Logan, Utah, balanced a scholastic career that concluded with a 3.85 GPA in biological science while finishing off an athletics career that included four All-America honors between track & field and cross country. At the conference level, Mock finished as a five-time Mountain West champion, a nine-time All-Mountain West performer and the conference meet record holder in the 10,000 meters.
The only others in CSU Athletics history to earn multiple Academic All-America honors were football's Greg Myers (1994-95), women's volleyball's Angela Knopf (2000-01), football's Eric Pauly (2001-03), women's track & field/cross country's Christine Ahn (2003-04), men's track & field/cross country's Mike Nicks (2004-05), and most recently, women's basketball's Lindsay Thomas (2004 and 2006).
Colorado State men's track & field was recently ranked at No. 9 in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association's (USTFCCCA) Program of the Year Final Standings. Included among the program's accomplishments in 2017-18 were a No. 9 national finish in cross country and a No. 16 NCAA finish in indoor track & field. That cross country finish tied for the fifth-best of any program in CSU Athletics history, while the indoor finish marked the Rams' second-highest in program history.
Academic All-Americans are selected from a national ballot that includes only the current year's Academic All-District honorees. To be eligible for Google Cloud Academic All-District honors, potential candidates must have a grade-point average of at least 3.3 along with legitimate credentials in athletics. The recipients of Academic All-District honors are then selected by a vote of the district's sports information directors. Colorado State's athletes are designated for CoSIDA's district seven, which includes nine different states.
With Thursday's recognition, Mock becomes the seventh athlete in the history of CSU Athletics to earn Academic All-America distinction multiple times. Mock, who was also an Academic All-American in 2017, is also the first to earn multiple honors for CSU in any sport since 2006.
Mock, a senior from Logan, Utah, balanced a scholastic career that concluded with a 3.85 GPA in biological science while finishing off an athletics career that included four All-America honors between track & field and cross country. At the conference level, Mock finished as a five-time Mountain West champion, a nine-time All-Mountain West performer and the conference meet record holder in the 10,000 meters.
The only others in CSU Athletics history to earn multiple Academic All-America honors were football's Greg Myers (1994-95), women's volleyball's Angela Knopf (2000-01), football's Eric Pauly (2001-03), women's track & field/cross country's Christine Ahn (2003-04), men's track & field/cross country's Mike Nicks (2004-05), and most recently, women's basketball's Lindsay Thomas (2004 and 2006).
Colorado State men's track & field was recently ranked at No. 9 in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association's (USTFCCCA) Program of the Year Final Standings. Included among the program's accomplishments in 2017-18 were a No. 9 national finish in cross country and a No. 16 NCAA finish in indoor track & field. That cross country finish tied for the fifth-best of any program in CSU Athletics history, while the indoor finish marked the Rams' second-highest in program history.
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