UK Cross Country Earns Multiple Academic Honors for 2017

LEXINGTON, Ky. – For yet another season both Kentucky’s men’s and women’s cross country teams earned All-Academic honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
 
The Kentucky women’s team had a 3.66 GPA, an increase from the 3.60 it earned the same honor with last season. The UK men’s team had a cumulative 3.53 GPA, increased from the 3.23 grade-point average from last year.
The UK men’s and women’s teams have both earned All-Academic honors from USTFCCCA in all of head coach Edrick Floréal’s six years at the program’s helm.
 
To be eligible for the All-Academic honors teams need a cumulative GPA better than 3.0 and to start at least five runners at the NCAA East Regional Championships.
 
Katy Kunc also earned the individual All-Academic award. She was named an All-Academic Individual for the third year in a row.
 
To be eligible for the award, they needed a cumulative GPA of 3.25 or higher on a 4.0 scale in addition to being an All-American finisher or top 25 finisher (or top 10%) at an NCAA Regional meet.
 
Kunc repeated as SEC Bronze Medalist. She was an All-Southeast Region finisher for the third year in a row, and finished 41st at NCAAs, a spot out of All-America position.
 
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The Kentucky cross country program placed 13 Wildcats – seven men and six women – on the 2017 Southeastern Conference Fall Sports Academic Honor Roll, Commissioner Greg Sankey announced Wednesday.

More broadly Kentucky’s fall sports teams placed 80 student-athletes on the SEC Honor Roll.
 
The Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll includes the sports of cross country, football, soccer and volleyball. It is based on grades from the 2017 Spring, Summer and Fall terms.  Among other qualifications, student-athletes must have a 3.0 grade-point average to be on the honor roll.    
 
Any student-athlete who participates in a Southeastern Conference championship sport or a student-athlete who participates in a sport listed on his/her institution’s NCAA Sports Sponsorship Form is eligible for nomination to the Academic Honor Roll. The following criteria will be followed: (1) A student-athlete must have a grade point average of 3.00 or above for either the preceding academic year (two semesters or three quarters) or have a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution. (2) If a student-athlete attends summer school, his/her grade point average during the summer academic term must be included in the calculation used to determine eligibility for the Academic Honor Roll. (3) Student-athletes eligible for the Honor Roll include those receiving an athletics scholarship, recipients of an athletics award (i.e., letter winner), and non-scholarship student-athletes who have been on a varsity team for two seasons. (4) Prior to being nominated, a student-athlete must have successfully completed 24 semester or 36 quarter hours of non-remedial academic credit toward a baccalaureate degree at the nominating institution. (5) The student-athlete must have been a member of a varsity team for the sport’s entire NCAA Championship segment.

 
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