NORFOLK, Va. (May 8, 2023) —The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) has announced the 2023 Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field All-Academic selections, honoring 172 student-athletes from the conference's eight member institutions who have achieved academic success.
MEAC sophomore, junior and senior student-athletes with a 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average (GPA), as well as transfer student-athletes who have been in residence at the institution for at least one year, are eligible for All-Academic accolades.
"Congratulations to our outdoor track & field All-Academic student-athletes," MEAC Commissioner Sonja Stills said. "Education is the cornerstone of everything we do, both at the conference level and in intercollegiate athletics as a whole. Academic achievement is just as worthy of praise as anything accomplished in competition, if not more so."
Morgan State (27)
Deborah Adekayode, Justin Alston, Ishana Asinor, Joshua Belinga, Ali Bowens, Zackery Dillon, Jalissa Emmens, Rachel Field, Yasmine George, Tarique Gooden, Davian Gray, Adrian Holley, Emmanuel Ibeh, Dante Jackson, Tia Jackson, Johnelle Johnson, Duane Kizer, Terine Lambert, Jessica Lamorn, Omari McKenzie, John Purvis, Derick Robinson, Inara Shell, Nasir Wallace, Jackson Waller, Destiny Ward, Keon Witherspoon
2023 Track and Field All-Academic honorees Complete List
About the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is in its 52nd year of intercollegiate competition with the 2022-23 academic school year. Located in Norfolk, Va., the MEAC is made up of eight outstanding historically black institutions across the Atlantic coastline: Coppin State University, Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina Central University and South Carolina State University.
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