After a successful fall season which amounted to a one point victory at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, the Oregon women’s cross country team has now been honored for its off-field efforts by the USTFCCCA. The Ducks were named the 2016 NCAA Division Women’s Scholar Team of the Year.
The Ducks averaged a cumulative 3.42 GPA throughout the fall to earn this honor for the second time in school history; this first time the team was honored was in 2012.
In addition to the team award, Alli Cash, Samantha Nadel and Katie Rainsberger  were also given USTFCCCA All-Academic honors. Cash, now a senior, has been acknowledged for her academic excellence before as three-time Pac-12 Cross Country All-Academic and a two-time Track All-Academic.
“This is an amazing honor for our team, and I am incredibly proud of the Women of Oregon for being true representatives of what it means to be a student-athlete,” Oregon head coach Robert Johnson. “Their discipline and success on the track and in the classroom is a true testament of who they are individually and collectively as members of our team.”
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