NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country All-Academic Teams
NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country All-Academic Athletes

NEW ORLEANS - The Haverford College women's cross country team was recently honored as a U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association's (USTFCCCA) 2023 Division III All-Academic Team, the organization announced in a release this afternoon.

To be considered an All-Academic Team, programs must have compiled a cumulative GPA or 3.10 or greater and competed in at least five different meets with at least five runners representing their school at each of those contests. Haverford has won the USTFCCCA Academic Team Award every year since 2007. 

In addition to the team-wide plaudits, Centennial Conference Rookie of the Year Alice Sappenfield (San Francisco, Calif.) was named a USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete.  To earn this individual distinction, a student-athlete must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.30 and have finished in the top 25-percent of finishers at an NCAA Regional.

At the end of last fall, seven members of the Cross Country team were additionally named Centennial Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll: Audrey Carter, Sophia Furman, Jessie Hausman, Dominique Monroy, Krysta Nichols, Carly Priest, and Julianna Watson.