LORETTO, Pa. – The Saint Francis men's and women's track & field/cross country teams had three student-athletes garner mention on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 2 squads, which were announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday.
Seniors Jorden Davis (Mississauga, Ontario / Loyola Catholic) and Jeremy Tice (Litteton, CO/Chatfield) (Littleton, Colo. / Chatfield) were both named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 2 Men's Track/Cross Country First Team. Junior Anna Hoffman (Enon Valley, Pa./Mohawk) (Enon Valley, Pa. / Mohawk) was selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 2 Women's Track/Cross Country First Team.
By being named to the program's first teams, Davis, Hoffman and Tice now advance to the national ballot for consideration to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America teams. Saint Francis University has had 33 all-time Academic All-Americans.
Davis has a 3.37 grade-point-average (GPA) in Marketing, and is expected to graduate in December. As a member of the Red Flash men's track & field team, he was a four-time Northeast Conference individual champion. Davis guided SFU to the 2009 NEC Indoor Track & Field championship when he won the 400-meter dash and the distance medley relay, and finished second in the 200-meter dash and fifth in the 4x400 relay. A 12-time scorer at the Northeast Conference Championships, Davis was a six-time all-NEC honoree. He also won the 2007 NEC Outdoor title in the 400 meters. A two-year Student-Athlete Mentor, and two-year SFU Leadership Council participant, Davis is a six-time member of the Saint Francis Academic Honor Roll.
Hoffman carries a 3.87 GPA in Elementary/Special Education entering her senior season in the fall. She is a two-time ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 2 First Team honoree, a six-time Northeast Conference champion, a 10-time all-NEC honoree and a three-time all-NEC Cross Country selection. She won a pair of individual titles at the 2009 NEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, winning the 1,500-meter run and then taking first in the 5,000 with an ECAC-qualifying time of 17:22.68. She has won the 5k race the last two years at the NEC Indoor and Outdoor Championships. She is the NEC Indoor record-holder in the 5k with a time of 17:23.11. Hoffman won the 3k steeplechase as a freshman, and is a member of the SFU Leadership Council and SAAC. She has been a member of the Dean's List every semester at Saint Francis.
Tice, who graduated a 3.62 GPA in Sociology/Criminal Justice, wrapped up a stellar five-year career as a Red Flash student-athlete by winning his first-ever Northeast Conference title in the distance medley relay at the 2009 indoor championships, helping lead Saint Francis to the team title. After a standout four-year career as a men's soccer player, Tice scored at the Northeast Conference Track & Field Championships five times in two seasons. In addition to winning the distance medley relay title, he finished sixth in the mile run at the 2009 Indoors, and sixth in the 1,500-meter run and seventh in the 800-meter run at the NEC outdoors. Tice started 66 of 68 matches in helping to lead the Red Flash men's soccer team to its first two appearances in the Northeast Conference championship match. He currently carries a 3.67 GPA in Saint Francis' MBA program.
To be eligible for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America award, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better on a scale of 4.0, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA Championships sports.
CoSIDA selects Academic All-America teams in 12 programs: football, women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's track & field/cross country, women's track & field/cross country, men's at-large and women's at-large.
