ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — University of New Mexico track & field/cross country student-athletes Sophie Connor and Alice Wright were both named Friday to the 2016 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Track & Field/Cross Country First Team.
The duo becomes the fifth and sixth CoSIDA Academic All-America selection for New Mexico Athletics in the 2015-16 academic year and continues a 15-year streak of multiple Academic All-America selections for UNM as a whole.
They also mark the 10th and 11th Academic All-America selections for the Lobo track & field/cross country program in its history, and the fifth and sixth first-team selections in the last three seasons, which is the second most in Division I in that span (Nebraska, seven).