Meyrer Adds Academic All-America Honor to His Multiple All-America Awards
8/12/2021 1:22:00 PM | Men's Cross Country, Men's Track & Field, Academic Success Program
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Graduate student Devin Meyrer of the University of Michigan men's track and field / cross country teams was named to the Academic All-America team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) organization on Thursday (Aug. 12).
A graduate student from Wildwood, Mo., pursuing a master's of social work on the Interpersonal Practice in Integrated Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse pathway, Meyrer earned Academic All-America status for the first time in his career as a member of the third team.
Meyrer was granted inclusion on the national team in a vote of CoSIDA members earlier this month after having been named to the Academic All-District team last month.
He is the fifth man in program history to earn the distinction, joining, among others, his coach Kevin Sullivan. Now the director of track & field and cross country, Sullivan was a four-time Academic All-American and the 1998 Spring At-Large Academic All-American of the Year.
Meyrer twice earned All-America honors in 2021 to go with a school record and two Big Ten Championships scoring performances.
Meyrer was in fine form throughout the months of February and March, putting together a string of three sub-14:00 runs at 5,000 meters that included a fourth-place finish at the Big Ten Indoor Championships and culminated with a school-record 13:40.66 clocking for second team All-America honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
Mere days after his NCAA Indoors run in Fayetteville, Ark., he was out on the trails in Stillwater, Okla., representing the Wolverines at the NCAA Cross Country Championships. With a 24th-place overall finish in a field of more than 250 runners, he was an All-American for the second straight season and the best Big Ten runner in the field by nearly 13 seconds. Those combined earned him Big Ten Runner of the Year honors for cross country.
Outdoors, he finished eighth at the Big Ten Championships at 10,000 meters and qualified to the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds at that distance.
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