Hill Earns Second Straight CoSIDA Academic All-District Award
5/29/2020 2:43:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan distance runner Alice Hill was voted to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District 5 team for women's track and field/cross country for the second consecutive season, the organization announced Friday (May 29).
Hill now becomes eligible for inclusion on the CoSIDA Academic All-America team for track and field/cross country. Each of the Academic All-District honorees are entered onto the ballot for first-, second- and third-team awards to be announced on June 25.
Michigan has had an Academic All-American in track and field/cross country in eight of the past 10 seasons.
An honors student from Ann Arbor with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average and dual majors in neuroscience and ecology, evolution & biodiversity, Hill was an All-American, Big Ten champion and two-time Big Ten Championships scorer during the 2020 indoor season.
Hill ran the leadoff 1,200-meter leg on Michigan's Big Ten champion distance medley relay team, which qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships for the second straight season and was set to contend for the national title before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the meet.
All qualifiers to the NCAA Indoor Championships were subsequently awarded All-America honors.
In addition to her relay duties, Hill also finished sixth in the Big Ten Indoor Championships mile final. It marked the third straight Big Ten Championships meet in which she had scored individually, including a bronze medal in last spring's Big Ten Outdoor Championships 3,000-meter steeplechase final.
Hill also was a member of Michigan's seven-woman team that finished 13th at the 2019 NCAA Cross Country Championships.
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