Women’s All-District Team | Men’s All-District Team
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two University of New Mexico track & field student-athletes were named Tuesday to the 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-District 7 Track & Field/Cross Country Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Seniors Alice Wright and Daniel Lam both earned All-District honors, which increases UNM’s total number of All-District recipients in the 2017-18 school year to nine student-athletes.
It’s the seventh straight year the New Mexico track & field/cross country program has placed at least one athlete on the Academic All-District team. Since 2012, the program has earned 19 Academic All-District selections.
The All-District 7 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.
Both student-athletes are now in contention to earn Academic All-America honors, which will be announced in June.
Wright, hailing from Worcester, England, owns a GPA of 4.04 in her pursuit of a graduate degree in business administration. This all-district selection is the fourth straight for Wright, who was named an Academic All-American in each of the last two seasons.
She is also a seven-time All-American athletically, with three honors in outdoor track and four in cross country.
This past November, Wright was the 14th-place finisher at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, helping UNM to its second NCAA team title in the last three years. She also qualified to the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships and most recently secured a spot at next month’s NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
Academically, she was named Academic All-Mountain West and MW Scholar-Athlete from 2014-17 and earned a fourth straight USTFCCCA All-Academic honor in February as part of the NCAA Division I Women’s Scholar Team of the Year.
Lam, an Amsterdam, Netherlands, product, carried a 4.16 GPA as he earned his degree in business administration. He was a three-time Academic All-Mountain West and Mountain West Scholar Athlete honoree, earning those merits from 2015-17.
He finished his New Mexico career as the 2018 Mountain West heptathlon champion, and was the MW heptathlon runner-up in 2016 and the MW decathlon runner-up in 2016 and 2017. He was a five-time All-MW honoree and ranks second in UNM history in the heptathlon and seventh in the decathlon.
Lam finished the 2018 indoor season ranked 36th in NCAA in the heptathlon.
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