HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College women's track & field team has been named a 2021 All-Academic Team as announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). In addition to the team award, junior Izzy Miller was named a 2021 USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete. The award is bestowed upon a student-athlete that maintained at least a cumulative 3.30 grade point average and finished the outdoor season among the top 50 individuals as listed on the descending order lists on TFRRS.
The Fords posted the 15th-highest GPA in the entire country and led each of their Centennial Conference peers in the yearly academic release. To be eligible for this award, teams needed to earn a cumulative GPA of 3.10 or higher. Haverford has now achieved this mark during each of the past 10 seasons. This season also marks the 15th time in the past 16 seasons the Fords have earned this honor since the association combined the indoor and outdoor season into one award.
Miller earned the plaudit by virtue of her seventh-place finish at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Collegiate Invitationa in Aprill. Finishing as the top Division III runner in her 5,000 meter event, Miller crossed in a personal-best time of 17:38.40. In addition to being her best race at that distance, that time ranks 10th in school history. Overall, there were more than 650 women who were named All-Academic Athletes in NCAA Division III Track & Field.
No stranger to academic performance, the Fords previously placed 26 team members of the Centennial Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll in 2021, with Marly Banatte, Rhea Chandran, Natalia Cordon, Saede Eifrig, Fiona Flynn, Naomi Fukuda, Hedy Goodman, Molly Hawkins, Mari Horton, Griffin Kaulbach, Ellie Keating, Jessica Lopez, Izzy Miller, Kristen Min, Jahsaiah Moses, Kayla Robinson, Sophie Schleifer, Selena She, Lauren Tanel, Cate Tomson, Kat Turner, Claire Wang, Eva White, Annemarie Wood, Hannah Yeakey, and Cathy Zhu all earning recognition from the conference.