{"id":46483,"date":"2017-02-16T11:37:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T18:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=46483"},"modified":"2017-02-16T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T18:52:02","slug":"xc-academic-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/xc-academic-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Best and the brightest: NAU cross country team earns national academic honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

In November, Northern Arizona University\u2019s men\u2019s cross country team won a national championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, the squad brought home another national accolade, earning the 2016 Scholar Team of the Year award from the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association (USTFCCCA). During the same semester they won their national championship, they accumulated a 3.12 fall semester grade point average (GPA).<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see our national championship men\u2019s cross country program be named the 2016 Scholar Team of the Year is a major accomplishment,\u201d athletics director Lisa Campos<\/strong> said. \u201cAt NAU we want to provide our student-athletes with an exceptional experience, and there\u2019s no better way to do that than becoming champions on the cross country course and in the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

To qualify for this honor, the Lumberjacks had to showcase their talents on the course all season long\u2014winning the Nuttycombe Invite, Big Sky’s, NCAA Mountain Region and the university’s first national title\u2014while maintaining a team GPA over 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale).<\/p>\n

Cross-country runners Tyler Day<\/strong>, a true sophomore from Gilbert, and Cory Glines<\/strong>, a junior from Canton, Ohio, also earned 2016 Division I Men\u2019s All-Academic individual honors. Last season was especially good for Day, who USTFCCCA selected as an All-American athlete. He finished the season ranked No. 23 at the national race with a GPA of 3.87.<\/p>\n

Glines, who finished sixth overall at mountain regionals, earned a 3.5 GPA in the fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all motivate each other in every workout and every race, so I try to take that mentality into the classroom and try to better myself in the academic world,\u201d Day said. \u201cI have the mindset that I came to college to learn and compete. So, if I don’t do one or the other I would be fulfilling 50 percent of my personal duties here at NAU.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the second time in school history the cross country men’s program was named the Scholar Team of the Year, with the first time being in 2013. That season, the Lumberjacks were the national-runners-up at the NCAA race.<\/p>\n

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In November, Northern Arizona University\u2019s men\u2019s cross country team won a national championship. Last week, the squad brought home another national accolade, earning the 2016 Scholar Team of the Year award from the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association (USTFCCCA). During the same semester they won their national championship, they accumulated…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":46493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}