Finn Earns Third Consecutive Academic All-District Award
5/29/2018 1:51:00 PM | Women's Cross Country, Women's Track & Field
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- For the third year in a row, Erin Finn of the University of Michigan was voted to the Google Cloud Academic All-District 5 team for women's track and field/cross country, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Tuesday (May 29).
With this announcement, Finn -- who is the reigning Academic All-American of the Year for track and field/cross country -- now becomes eligible for a third consecutive Google Cloud Academic All-America honor, having earned first-team distinctions during each of the last two seasons.
Each of the Academic All-District honorees are entered onto the ballot for first-, second- and third-team awards to be announced on June 18.
Michigan has had an Academic All-American in track and field/cross country in seven of the past eight seasons.
Now a graduate student pursuing a Master's of Public Health in epidemiology, the West Bloomfield, Michigan, native has continued to raise the bar of excellence she has set both in competition and in the classroom.
For her combination of academic and athletic prowess, she was honored as one of eight finalists for the prestigious Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) James E. Sullivan award and was awarded the Big Ten Medal of Honor from among all Michigan female student-athletes.
In the classroom she has posted a sterling 4.18 grade-point average in her graduate studies, improving the near-perfect GPA she carried throughout her undergraduate biochemistry career.
In competition, Finn took to the track for Michigan during both the indoor and outdoor track and field seasons in 2017-18, setting a new school record, winning a conference title and posting numerous national-level performances along the way.
Indoors she broke her own school record at the 3,000-meter distance, clocking 8:58.69 for the fastest time run in that event on Michigan soil.
Outdoors she clocked a 15:33.15 over 5,000 meters that ranks her No. 7 nationally and won the Big Ten title over 10,000 meters in 32:45.51 that also ranks No. 7 in the country. The conference win pushed Finn to 10 career Big Ten individual titles, the most in the combined history of Michigan women's track and field and cross country.
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