IRVING, Texas – Charlotte’s Riley Felts and Rice’s Mckyla Van der Westhuizen have both earned Academic All-America honors from the College Sports Communicators, CSC announced on Tuesday, July 9. Felts has been selected to the First Team, while Van der Westhuizen was picked to the Second Team.
Felts was the runner-up in the pole vault at the both the 2024 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She is a seven-time conference champion and was named the 2024 Southeast Region Women’s Field Athlete of the Year. The senior from Matthews, N.C. has a 3.