Hill Repeats as CoSIDA Academic All-American, Moves Up to First Team
8/12/2021 1:22:00 PM | Women's Cross Country, Women's Track & Field, Academic Success Program
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- For the second consecutive academic year, recent graduate Alice Hill of the University of Michigan women'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).
An Ann Arbor native who graduated this spring with a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade-point average in her dual neuroscience / ecology, evolution and biodiversity majors, Hill was named to the first team for the 2020-21 season after earning second team honors in 2019-20.
Hill was granted inclusion on the national team in a vote of CoSIDA members earlier this month.
Last month, she had been named to the Academic All-District team for the second straight season. This summer she was also named Michigan's female Big Ten Medal of Honor recipient.
Michigan has now had an Academic All-American in women's track and field / cross country in 17 of the last 21 seasons.
She is the 34th individual in Michigan history to have earned multiple Academic All-America honors, and the fourth to become a multiple-time Academic All-American during the 2020-21 academic year. She joins Annika Hoffmann (rowing), Strauss Mann (ice hockey) and Joel Harrison (men's soccer) in that distinction.
This is the second consecutive year in which Hill has claimed All-America honors both in competition and in the classroom.
She earned first team All-America honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships as the leadoff member of the fifth-place distance medley relay team, marking the third straight season of All-America status in the event.
Hill competed in three different NCAA Championships events for the Wolverines, with additional appearances on the Wolverines' 17th-place NCAA Cross Country Championships team and as an individual qualifier in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
At the conference level she scored in the indoor mile for the third straight season and helped Michigan to a runner-up finish in the distance medley relay. Outdoors she was fourth in the steeplechase.
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