Hill Named Second Team Academic All-American
6/25/2020 12:00:00 PM | Women's Cross Country, Women's Track & Field
AUSTIN, Texas -- Rising senior distance runner Alice Hill of the University of Michigan women's track and field / cross country teams was named to the Academic All-America second team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) organization on Thursday (June 25).
An Ann Arbor native with a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade-point average in her dual neuroscience and ecology, and evolution and biodiversity majors, Hill earned Academic All-American status for the first time in her career. Earlier this month, she had been named to the Academic All-District team for the second straight season.
Hill was granted inclusion on the national team in a vote of CoSIDA members earlier this month.
Michigan has now had an Academic All-American in women's track and field / cross country in 16 of the last 20 seasons. Hill is the 13th different woman from the program to earn the honor.
Hill can now lay claim to All-America honors both in the classroom and in competition.
As a member of Michigan's tradition-rich distance medley relay for the past two seasons, Hill has twice earned All-America honors in her duty as the team's leadoff runner. She kicked off the team's sixth-place run at the 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships and was set to once more lead the Wolverines at the 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships before they were canceled due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. All qualifiers to the 2020 national meet were awarded All-America honors.
She captured her first Big Ten title in 2020 as a member of the winning distance medley relay, to go along with a sixth-place finish in the mile final. The year prior, she won Big Ten silver in the DMR and was also sixth in the mile.
Outdoors, she claimed the 2019 Big Ten Championships bronze medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and qualified for the NCAA East Preliminaries. She had her big breakthrough the summer before when she finished seventh in the IAAF World U20 Championships 3,000-meter steeplechase final.
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