13 Wolverine Women Earn USTFCCCA All-Academic Honors
7/13/2022 3:03:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
NEW ORLEANS, La. -- The University of Michigan women's track and field team was recognized on Wednesday (July 13) for its combined athletic and academic excellence throughout the 2022 season as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced its All-Academic honors.
Among the All-Academic Individual honorees around the nation were 13 Michigan women -- the second-highest total in program history -- who led the team to its 11th straight season earning the All-Academic Team distinction.
All-Americans Aasia Laurencin, Aurora Rynda and Kayla Windemuller, as well as Big Ten champion Ziyah Holman, all earned the honor to go along with their significant athletic accomplishments.
This was the fourth time both Rynda and Alice Hill earned the award in their respective track careers.
Ericka VanderLende earned the honor for the third time on the track, while Lauren Fulcher, Mia Manson, Sam Tran, Holman and Windemuller are two-time honorees.
First-time award winners include Riley Ammenhauser, BreeAna Bates, Amanda Schaare, Savannah Sutherland and Laurencin.
To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field Team, a student-athlete must have compiled a cumulative grade-point average of 3.25 or better and have met one of two athletic standards. For the indoor season, a student-athlete must have finished the regular season ranked in the national top 96 in an individual event or ranked in the national top 48 (collective listing) in a relay event on the official NCAA POP list provided by TFRRS.org. For the outdoor season, a student-athlete must have participated in any round of the NCAA Division I Championships (including preliminary rounds).
Rynda turned in one of the most impressive campaigns in school history, accumulating two All-America honors, three Big Ten titles, a Big Ten record, and two school records in 2022. She was a first-team All-American indoors at 800 meters and a second-team honoree outdoors. At the Big Ten level, she won indoor titles at 600 meters and in the distance medley relay, and won the outdoor 800-meter crown. Her 1:26.50 to win the 600-meter final was the fastest time in Big Ten history and ranks her No. 3 in collegiate history.
No Michigan woman -- or man, for that matter -- scored in more Big Ten Championships individual finals than did Windemuller in 2022, as she contributed points for Michigan in four different events between indoors and outdoors. She was the silver medalist in the 3,000-meter steeplechase outdoors, and also finished top-eight in the indoor 3,000 and 5,000, and the outdoor 5,000. She went on to earn second-team All-America status in the steeplechase.
Laurencin made the most of her debut season as a Wolverine, earning second-team All-America honors outdoors in the 100-meter hurdles and finishing as the Big Ten Championships silver medalist indoors in the 60-meter hurdles. She was also a two-time Drake Relays champion.
Holman won the Big Ten title indoors at 400 meters and was the runner-up in the conference outdoors, to go along with a Big Ten title indoors in the distance medley relay. She also lowered her own school record to 51.25 seconds in the outdoor 400 meters.
Hill and Tran both shared in the distance medley relay title indoors, and both additionally were individual scorers at the conference level. This is the latest honor for Hill after previously earning the NCAA Elite 90 Award for cross country and Academic All-America honors this academic year.
VanderLende also scored for the Wolverines indoors.
Both Ammenhauser (triple jump), Bates (100 meters) and Sutherland (400-meter hurdles) all established new U-M first-year records in their respective events, and each scored at the Big Ten Championships either indoors or outdoors.
2022 USTFCCCA All-Academic Honorees
Riley Ammenhauser (Undeclared)
BreeAna Bates (Undeclared)
Lauren Fulcher (Information)
Alice Hill (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology MS)
Ziyah Holman (Undeclared)
Aasia Laurencin (Sociology)
Mia Manson (Movement Science)
Aurora Rynda (Movement Science)
Amanda Schaare (Sport Management)
Savannah Sutherland (Undeclared)
Sam Tran (Movement Science)
Ericka VanderLende (Applied Exercise Science)
Kayla Windemuller (Applied Exercise Science)
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