USTFCCCA Academic Teams Release

USTFCCCA Academic Athletes Release

NEW ORLEANS - The Haverford College men's cross country team was named one of the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association (USTFCCCA) 2022 Division III Men's All-Academic Teams, the organization announced this afternoon.

Haverford has quite an impressive academic award history as the program has won the overall Scholar Team of the Year three times (2007, 2010, 2011) and has earned the All-Academic Team designation in each year of the award's history dating back to 1996. To be considered an All-Academic Team, a program must have compiled a cumulative GPA of 3.10 or greater through its institution's last grading period. 

In addition to the team award, six members of the Haverford men's cross country team were additionally named All-Academic athletes.  In order to qualify for All-Academic distinction, student athletes must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.30 on a 4.0 scale and finish in the top-25 percent of their respective regional championship meet. 

The awardees from Haverford included Aaron Bratt (Washington, D.C.), Peter Buckley (Athens, Ohio), Ryan Kredell (Geneva, Illinois), Peter LaRochelle (Great Barrington, Mass.), Jamie Moreland (Los Angeles, Calif.) and Nico Tripeny (Corning, N.Y.). Buckley, Kredell, LaRochelle, and Tripeny are all repeat winners from a season ago while Bratt picked up the award in 2019.

Overall, there were 320 men from 119 different institutions who were named All-Academic Athletes for their efforts during the 2022 cross country season.