Panthers honored with CSC Academic All-District honors for track and field/cross country

GREENWOOD, Ind. --- College Sports Communicators (CSC) on Tuesday released its track and field and cross country Academic All-District team members with ten Panthers being recognized.

The CSC Academic All-District Team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined athletic and academic performances. Nominated student-athletes must be at least a sophomore of academic and athletic standing, must be enrolled in their respective institution for at least one full academic year, maintain at least a 3.50 cumulative grade-point average (GPA). Additionally, student-athletes must rank in the top-50 individually at their 2024 NCAA regional competition for cross country, or rank in the top-50 regionally in a single individual event for indoor and/or outdoor track action.

This year's all-district honorees from UNI include Chase Knoche, Hunter Manock, David Russell, Caleb Shumaker, Derek Woods, Kate Crawford, Emma Hoins, Eden Mueller, Joey Perry and Darci Wiseman.

Knoche, Russell, Shumaker and Hoins all qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminary Meet this spring, with Hoins notably breaking her own school record in April in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase. Shumaker also broke UNI's eight-kilometer men's cross country record in the fall, as Crawford set a new 6K career-best time at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships. Manock captured the Missouri Valley Conference's (MVC) men's indoor 60-meter hurdles title, while Perry won the league's outdoor heptathlon crown. Mueller and Woods meanwhile both posted top-ten conference finishes in both mid-distance and distance races during the indoor and outdoor track seasons.

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College Sports Communicators was founded in 1957 and is a 4,100+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada.

From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

The organization, which celebrated its 68th year during the 2024-25 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.

UNI track and field action can be followed all season long on social media on Facebook (UNI Track and Field), X (@UNITrackFieldXC) and on Instagram (@uni_tf_xc). Schedules and rosters, along with the latest Panther news and information can be found online at UNIpanthers.com.

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