NEW ORLEANS - Thirty-three individuals and both Colorado School of Mines track & field teams earned spots on the USTFCCCA All-Academic lists in the organization's year-end awards.

The Oredigger men led all of NCAA Division II with a 3.722 GPA among its NCAA squad, having 17 individuals honored, and the women's 3.602 GPA was top-20 nationally and the best among RMAC programs with their 16 individual recipients.

The men's individual All-Academic honorees included Daniel Appleford, Aidan Bennett, Logan Bocovich, Alberto Campa, Everett Delate, Brock Drengenberg, Duncan Fuehne, Dawson Gunn, Andrew Kaye, Noah Kelly, Matt Mettler, Hunter Potrykus, Grant Redmond, JP Rutledge, Loic Scomparin, Alex Shaw, and Tim Thompson. The women's team included Zoe Baker, Margaux Basart, Allison Comer, Aani Hardesty, Avery Herbold, Claire Kintzley, Ashleigh Loe, Molly Maksin, Riley McGrath, Hannah Miller, Holly Moser, Jenna Ramsey-Rutledge, Grace Strongman, Dale Thompson, Lexye Wood, and Aryelle Wright.

It is the latest in a pile of academic awards for Mines this postseason. Last week, nine Orediggers were named Academic All-America by the College Sports Communicators including Baker and Potrykus earning Academic All-American of the Year honors for D-II; the men's track & field team also won the RMAC's Brechler Award in early July for having the top team GPA among the conference's programs. 

Individual USTFCCCA honorees had a 3.25 or above GPA while holding an NCAA provisional qualifying mark in any event. Honored teams had a combined cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher among the program's NCAA squad list.