Women’s All-District Team | Men’s All-District Team
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three University of New Mexico track & field student-athletes were named to the 2016 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District Track & Field/Cross Country District 7 Teams on Thursday.
Women’s student-athletes Alice Wright and Sophie Connor joined men’s student-athlete Yannick Roggatz in earning All-District honors, which increases UNM’s total number of All-District recipients in the 2015-16 school year to 14 student-athletes.
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| Alice Wright | |
It’s the fifth-straight year New Mexico track & field/cross country has place at least one athlete on the Academic All-District team. Since 2012, the program has earned 14 Academic All-District selections.
The all-district teams are made up of eligible athletes (3.3 GPA or higher; at least a sophomore and no first year students/transfers) from all Division I schools in Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming.
All three Lobo student-athletes are now in contention to earn Academic All-America honors, which will be announced in June.
Wright, a redshirt sophomore from Worcester, England, is majoring in liberal arts and carries a 4.00 GPA. This all-district selection is the second straight for Wright, who is also a three-time All-American athletically, with one honor in outdoor track and two in cross country.
This past November, Wright was the No. 2 scorer for the 2015 NCAA champion women’s cross country team. Currently, she ranks fourth in the NCAA in the 10000 and is seeded second in the event at this week’s NCAA West Preliminary round.
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| Sophie Connor | |
Academically, she was named Academic All-Mountain West and MW Scholar-Athlete from 2014-15 and was earned a second straight USTFCCCA All-Academic honor in February as part of the NCAA Division I Women’s Scholar Team of the Year.
Connor, a graduate student from Hertfordshire, England, posted a 4.04 GPA earning her Master of Business Administration. A 2016 Indoor All-American in the mile, Connor is currently searching for a second such honor and is seeded second in the 1500 at the NCAA West Prelims.
Connor has experienced a breakout year on the track this year, setting the UNM records in the 800 indoors and the 1500 outdoors. She won the mile at the 2016 MW Indoor Championships and claimed the metric mile title at the MW Outdoor Championships two weeks ago.
In the classroom, she earned Academic All-MW and MW Scholar-Athlete honors in 2015.
Yannick Roggatz, a senior from Birkenau, Germany, holds a 4.00 GPA as he pursues his MBA. He scored in the long jump and high jump at the 2016 MW Indoor Championships and added a scoring effort in the long jump at the MW Outdoor Championships two weeks ago.
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| Yannick Roggatz | |
He is currently seeded 36th in the long jump at the NCAA West Prelims, and ranks seventh in New Mexico history in the indoor long jump. He has registered three straight runner-up finishes in the event at MW Indoor Championships (2014-16).
Additionally, he was named Academic All-Mountain West in 2014 and 2015 and earned MW Scholar-Athlete honors from 2013-15.
The group’s selections mark the fifth straight year that the UNM track and cross-country squads have earned Academic All-District. Last year, Wright, Sammy Silva and Peter Callahan were selected to the Academic All-District 7 team, with Callahan going on to earn Academic All-America honors.
Additionally, Wright, Connor and Roggatz are the 12th, 13th and 14th All-District selections this year for UNM as a whole. The department record for New Mexico is 17, which was set in 2014.