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CoSIDA would like to thank 2001-02 Academic All-America of the Year recipient Stacey Dales (Oklahoma women's basketball) for her interviews with the 2018-19 honorees. Dales went on to a successful professional basketball career in the WNBA and is currently a reporter for the NFL Network. Follow her @StaceyDales. Thanks to CoSIDA corporate partner Blinder for providing the technology to produce the interviews.


Arkansas Pole Vaulter Lexi Jacobus Selected 2018-19 Google Cloud NCAA Division I Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year

NCAA Division I Academic All-America® of the Year: PDF  |  doc

AUSTIN, Texas – University of Arkansas four-time national champion and Olympian pole vaulter Lexi Jacobus has been named as the 2018-19 Google Cloud Division I Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
 
Jacobus maintains a graduate school 4.0 GPA in biochemistry and has been accepted to medical school in Little Rock. She continues to prepare for the #Tokoyo2020 Summer Olympic Games.
 
"Everyone always sees an athlete's success on the track, court, or field, but without awards and recognitions like this, people wouldn't see how hard we work in the classroom as well,” said Jacobus, a native of Cabot, Arkansas. “Over the last four years, I have put countless hours into studying and my classwork always striving to learn as much as I could while being given the amazing opportunity to earn a degree at the University of Arkansas debt-free.”
 
“Being selected for this award is so humbling,” Jacobus continued. “And I feel blessed to be recognized for the hard work I put in away from the track as well.”

 

 
Jacobus, a 2016 Olympian and U.S. Olympic Trials bronze medalist, was named a second team All-American after she tied for ninth place at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and helping the Razorbacks to the team championship. Jacobus and her sister, Tori Hoggard, are three-time Academic All-America® selections, earning first-team honors in 2018 and second-team in 2017. Tori was the 2019 NCAA Outdoor champion in the pole vault.
 
Jacobus is a four-time NCAA champion in the pole vault and earned seven First Team All-American honors during her career.  She was a five-time Southeastern Conference champion, All-SEC honoree seven times and was a two-time recipient of the NCAA South Central Regional Field Athlete of the Year.
 
Jacobus, a three-time NCAA Elite 90 Award winner, was the 2019 Track & Field News Indoor Athlete of the Year. She owns the Arkansas indoor pole vault record and ranks second in program history in the pole vault outdoors.
 
“We are always so proud of Lexi, no matter what the challenge may be, she always attacked it with high energy and tenacity,” said Arkansas women’s head coach Lance Harter.
 
Cumberland’s Christina Klouda was named the Google Cloud NAIA Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year on July 29, MIT’s Abby Bertics earned the Division III Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year on July 30, and Merrimack’s Charlie Bertrand claimed the Division II Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year on July 31.

 

 

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2018-19 Sport-By-Sport NCAA Division I Academic All-America Team Member of the Year Award Winners
 

Name	Sport	Class	Major, GPA
Laurent Bams, Alabama	Men's At-Large	Sr.	Economics, 4.00
Trevor Ezell, Arkansas	Baseball	Gr.	Industrial Engineering/Operations Management, 4.00
Mikayla Ferenz, Idaho	Women's Basketball	Sr.	Mathematics, 4.00
Makenzie Fischer, Stanford	Women's At-Large	Jr.	Mechanical Engineering, 4.03
Justin Hebert, Oregon	Football	Jr.	Engineering Physics, 4.01
Bailey Hemphill, Alabama	Softball	Jr.	Human Development Family Studies, 3.99
Lexi Jacobus, Arkansas	Women's Track/XC	Gr.	Biochemistry, 4.00 U/4.00 G
Molly Kelly, Iowa	Volleyball	Sr.	International Studies and Religious Studies, 4.06
Morgan McDonald, Wisconsin	Men's Track/XC	Sr.	Finance, Investment and Banking, 3.76
Bianca St. Georges, West Virginia	Women's Soccer	Sr.	Exercise Physiology, 4.00
Joe Sherburne, UMBC	Men's Basketball	Gr.	Sport Management, 4.00 U/4.00 G
Simon Spangenberg, New Mexico	Men's Soccer	Sr.	Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, 4.20

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Jeff Schwartz, North Dakota State University | Google Cloud Academic All-America® Committee Co-Director for Publicity
Jeff.Schwartz@ndsu.edu | (701) 231-8332