Louisville’s Wasike, Notre Dame’s Williams named Scholar-Athletes of the Year
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Thirty-two All-Atlantic Coast Conference performers, including eight All-Americans, secured spots on the 2018 All-ACC Academic Cross Country teams announced Thursday by the conference office.
Louisville junior Dorcas Wasike is the ACC Women’s Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year, while Notre Dame senior Anthony Williams claimed Men’s Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors to head up the All-ACC Academic Teams.
Wasike, the 2018 ACC Women’s Cross Country Champion, was also voted the league’s Women’s Runner of the Year by the conference head coaches in December. The native of Kitale, Kenya, earned All-America honors for the second consecutive season with her 14th-place 6K time at the NCAA finals. That solid showing came eight days after Wasike raced to the individual title at the Southeast Regional Championships.
In addition to the ACC Women’s Championship, in which she registered a gold medal time of 20:08.1, she also captured individual crowns at the Louisville Cross Country Classic and the Vanderbilt Commodore Classic. Wasike became the first Louisville female athlete to claim an ACC cross country championship and to be named a USTFCCCA Regional Athlete of the Year.
A nursing major, Wasike earned spots on both the Louisville Dean’s List and the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll each of the previous two semesters. She has also achieved the status of Red and Black Scholar, which is awarded to university student-athletes who achieve a GPA of 3.25 or higher.
Notre Dame’s Williams ran to a sixth-place finish at the ACC Championships to help lead the Fighting Irish to their first men’s cross country team title since joining the league in 2013. Williams followed up with a 23rd-place finish to earn All-Great Lakes Regional honors on Nov. 9, helping Notre Dame to a second-place team finish and spot in the NCAA Championship.
Williams capped off the season with a 97th-place 10K finish on a snowy course in Madison, Wisconsin, to help the Fighting Irish to a 14th-place team finish at the NCAA finals.
A native of Bloomington, Indiana, Williams is on track to graduate with honors this spring with a degree in biological sciences.
In addition to Wasike and Williams, the 2018 All-ACC Academic Cross Country Teams include ACC Men’s Champion and ACC Men’s Runner of the Year Peter Seufer of Virginia Tech, ACC Men’s Freshman of the Year Zach Facioni of Wake Forest, and ACC Women’s Freshman of the Year Jacqueline Gaughan of Notre Dame.
The ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards were established in September of 2007 to be awarded annually to the top junior or senior student-athlete in their respective sports. Candidates for the awards must have maintained a 3.0 grade point average for their careers, as well as a 3.0 for each of the last two semesters.
Minimum academic requirements for selection to the All-ACC Academic Team are a 3.0 grade point average for the previous semester and a 3.0 cumulative average during one’s academic career. Athletic achievements during the most recent season are also considered in selecting the All-ACC Academic Team.
The ACC Honor Roll, which recognizes all conference student-athletes with a grade point average of 3.0 for the current academic year, will be released in July.
The 2018 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Cross Country teams, including each student-athlete’s major of study, are as follows:
2018 All-ACC Academic Women’s Cross Country Team
Logan Morris, Clemson, Jr., Industrial Engineering
Michaela Reinhart, Duke, So., Undeclared
Elizabeth Funderburk, Florida State, Fr., Finance
Jodie Judd, Florida State, So., Editing, Writing, Media
Militsa Mircheva, Florida State, Gr., International Affairs
Megan Mooney, Florida State, Jr., Hospitality & Tourism Mgt.
Maudie Skyring, Florida State, So., Exercise Physiology
Hana Herndon, Georgia Tech, So., Civil Engineering
Amy Ruiz, Georgia Tech, Sr., Electrical Engineering
Dorcas Wasike, Louisville, Jr., Nursing *
Enyaeva Michelin, North Carolina, Fr., Undeclared
Dominique Clairmonte, NC State, So, History
Nell Crosby, NC State, Sr., Physiology
Elly Henes, NC State, Jr., Psychology
Heather Holt, NC State, Fr., Undeclared
Nevada Mareno, NC State, Fr., Fashion & Textile Mgt.
Savannah Shaw, NC State, Fr., Business Administration
Isabel Zimmermann, NC State, So., Nutrition Science
Rachel DaDamio, Notre Dame, Sr., Applied & Computational Mathematics
Jacqueline Gaughan, Notre Dame, Fr., Undeclared
Jessica Harris, Notre Dame, Gr., Master of Science
Anna Rohrer, Notre Dame, Sr., Neuroscience & Biology
Sam Shields, Pitt, Jr., Nursing
Rachel Bonner, Syracuse, Jr., Biology
Madeline Davison, Syracuse, Jr., News & Online Journalism/Sociology
Laura Dickinson, Syracuse, Fr., Sport & Human Dynamics
Mary Malone, Syracuse, Sr., Public Relations
Abbey Green, Virginia, Fr., Undeclared
Sara Freix, Virginia Tech, Jr., Biological Systems Engineering
Kayla Richardson, Virginia Tech, Jr., Computer Science
Sam Halvorsen, Wake Forest, Jr., English
Mimi Smith, Wake Forest, Sr., Health & Exercise Science
* ACC Women’s Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year
2018 All-ACC Academic Men’s Cross Country Team
Sean Burke, Boston College, Sr., Biochemistry
Nikhil Pulimood, Duke, Sr., Computer Science
Josh Romine, Duke, So., Undeclared
Steven Cross, Florida State, Jr., Finance
Caleb Pottorff, Florida State, Fr., Exercise Physiology
Istvan Szogi, Florida State, Sr., International Affairs
James Cragin, Georgia Tech, Fr., Business Administration
Andrew Kent, Georgia Tech, Jr., Mechanical Engineering
Chandler Austin, Louisville, Sr., Business Administration
Alex Milligan, North Carolina, Jr., Business Administration
Gavin Gaynor, NC State, So., Chemical Engineering
Eli Moskowitz, NC State, Sr., Biological Science
Andrew Alexander, Notre Dame, So., Neuroscience & Behavior
Daniel Kilrea, Notre Dame, Fr., Undeclared
Yared Nuguse, Notre Dame, So., Biochemistry
Kevin Salvano, Notre Dame, Jr., Accountancy
Bradley Wattleworth, Notre Dame, Gr., Science in Mgt.
Anthony Williams, Notre Dame, Sr., Biological Sciences *
Nick Wolk, Pitt, Jr., Econ/Political Science
Noah Affolder, Syracuse, So., Health & Exercise Science
Illiass Aouani, Syracuse, Sr., Civil Engineering
Dominic Hockenbury, Syracuse, Jr., Biology
Stephen Schultz, Syracuse, So., Graphic Design
Simon Smith, Syracuse, Sr., Biology
Aidan Tooker, Syracuse, Jr., Communication/Rhetorical Studies
Brent Demarest, Virginia, Sr., Educational Psychology
AJ Ernst, Virginia, Jr., History
Jack Joyce, Virginia Tech, Sr., Economics
Bashir Mosavel-Lo, Virginia Tech, Fr., Industrial Systems Engineering
Peter Seufer, Virginia Tech, Sr., Finance
Mitchell Day, Wake Forest, So., Undeclared
Zach Facioni, Wake Forest, Fr., Undeclared
* ACC Men’s Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year