NEW ORLEANS -- The Bates men's track and field team was honored last Monday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for their achievements in the classroom.
The Bobcats have a team cumulative grade point average of 3.57, tied for 21st highest in NCAA Division III, and good for All-Academic Team honors from the USTFCCCA. The minimum threshold to be named an All-Academic Team is a 3.1 GPA on a 4.0 scale.
In addition, five Bobcats were named USTFCCCA Men's All-Academic Athletes.
Team captain and biology major
Jackson Monz '26 (Logan, Utah), rhetoric, film, and screen studies major
Seneca Moore '27, chemistry major
Andrew Mottur '25, (Rumford, R.I.),
Nate Roberts '28, (Summit, N.J.) who has yet to declare a major, and U.S. history and classical & medieval studies major
Truman Williams '25 (Montclair, N.J.) all earned this prestigious honor.
In order to be named an All-Academic athlete by the USTFCCCA, student-athletes must have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.30 on a 4.0 scale through the most recently completed grading period. And on top of that, athletes need to have finished the season ranked in the top 50 in the country in an individual event, or top 35 in a relay.
Monz was part of a Distance Medley Relay team that ranked 13th in the country at 9:58.01, Moore finished the year ranked 45th in the 60-meter hurdles (8.23) and 34th in the 110-meter hurdles (14.48), Mottur ranked 35th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at 9:08.87, Roberts was 44th in the indoor 800 meters (1:54.27) and 45th in the outdoor 800 meters (1:51.70), and Williams ranked 17th in the indoor 400 meters (47.90 seconds, converted to a flat track time of 48.67).
