Meyrer Earns CoSIDA Academic All-District Award
7/15/2021 2:51:00 PM | Men's Cross Country, Men's Track & Field, Academic Success Program
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan distance runner Devin Meyrer was voted to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District 5 team for men's track and field/cross country for the first time in his career, the organization announced Thursday (July 15).
Meyrer 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 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 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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