University of Minnesota Athletics
Three Gophers Earn CoSIDA Academic All-District
5/25/2017 12:00:00 AM | Men's Cross Country
May 25, 2017 MINNEAPOLIS (GopherSports.com) - A trio of Gophers have been honored on the 2016-17 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District Men's and Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Teams, the organization announced on Thursday.
Luca Wieland earned Academic All-District accolades for the third year in a row while Madeline Strandemo and Derek Wiebke picked up their first career honors. All three Gopher honorees will be in action this weekend at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field First Round in Austin, Texas.
With 19 total CoSIDA Academic All-District honorees this year, the University of Minnesota led all NCAA Division I public institutions. Only Stanford had more with 20.
A native of Saarbrucken, Germany, Wieland has cemented his place in school history as the Big Ten Medal of Honor recipient in 2016-17. As a sophomore, he became the 13th Gopher to earn an individual national championship when he captured the 2015 NCAA indoor heptathlon title while earning his first of two First Team All-America honors in the event. Wieland earned his fourth Big Ten event title and first in the high jump earlier this month to go with his pair of Big Ten decathlon titles and a Big Ten heptathlon championship. Among his accomplishments in competition, Wieland holds both of Minnesota's multi-events records, breaking his own heptathlon record (6,070 points) and the decathlon record (8,201 points) earlier this year. Wieland, an Entrepreneurial Management major in Minnesota's Carlson School of Business, is a two-time Academic All-American as well as a two-time Academic All-Big and USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree.
A native of Fargo, N.D., Strandemo is a two-time 2017 All-Big Ten First Team honoree in track & field, winning the B1G mile title indoors and the 3,000 meter steeplechase crown outdoors. She also picked up All-Big Ten Second Team accolades during the 2016 cross country season with an eighth-place finish at the B1G Cross Country Championship. Strandemo holds Minnesota's program record in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, ranks second all-time in the mile and the indoor 3,000m, and ranks seventh on Minnesota's all-time top-50 six-kilometer performers list in cross country. She is a two-time NCAA Cross Country Championship competitor and a two-time NCAA Track & Field West Prelim qualifier. A double major studying marketing and Mandarin Chinese, Strandemo is a USTFCCCA All-Academic selection, Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, and Academic All-Big Ten honoree as well.
A native of Kasson, Minn., Wiebke won the 2017 Big Ten indoor mile and is a two-time All-Big Ten selection. His winning mark of 4:01.85 was a personal record and ranks fourth all-time on Minnesota's top performers list. He also earned Second Team All-America accolades as a member of the Gophers distance medley relay squad during the indoor campaign and clocked the third-fastest time in program history at 9:30.48. Wiebke also competes for the Minnesota cross country team. A German, Scandinavian and Dutch studies major, he is a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection.
Luca Wieland earned Academic All-District accolades for the third year in a row while Madeline Strandemo and Derek Wiebke picked up their first career honors. All three Gopher honorees will be in action this weekend at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field First Round in Austin, Texas.
With 19 total CoSIDA Academic All-District honorees this year, the University of Minnesota led all NCAA Division I public institutions. Only Stanford had more with 20.
A native of Saarbrucken, Germany, Wieland has cemented his place in school history as the Big Ten Medal of Honor recipient in 2016-17. As a sophomore, he became the 13th Gopher to earn an individual national championship when he captured the 2015 NCAA indoor heptathlon title while earning his first of two First Team All-America honors in the event. Wieland earned his fourth Big Ten event title and first in the high jump earlier this month to go with his pair of Big Ten decathlon titles and a Big Ten heptathlon championship. Among his accomplishments in competition, Wieland holds both of Minnesota's multi-events records, breaking his own heptathlon record (6,070 points) and the decathlon record (8,201 points) earlier this year. Wieland, an Entrepreneurial Management major in Minnesota's Carlson School of Business, is a two-time Academic All-American as well as a two-time Academic All-Big and USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree.
A native of Fargo, N.D., Strandemo is a two-time 2017 All-Big Ten First Team honoree in track & field, winning the B1G mile title indoors and the 3,000 meter steeplechase crown outdoors. She also picked up All-Big Ten Second Team accolades during the 2016 cross country season with an eighth-place finish at the B1G Cross Country Championship. Strandemo holds Minnesota's program record in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, ranks second all-time in the mile and the indoor 3,000m, and ranks seventh on Minnesota's all-time top-50 six-kilometer performers list in cross country. She is a two-time NCAA Cross Country Championship competitor and a two-time NCAA Track & Field West Prelim qualifier. A double major studying marketing and Mandarin Chinese, Strandemo is a USTFCCCA All-Academic selection, Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, and Academic All-Big Ten honoree as well.
A native of Kasson, Minn., Wiebke won the 2017 Big Ten indoor mile and is a two-time All-Big Ten selection. His winning mark of 4:01.85 was a personal record and ranks fourth all-time on Minnesota's top performers list. He also earned Second Team All-America accolades as a member of the Gophers distance medley relay squad during the indoor campaign and clocked the third-fastest time in program history at 9:30.48. Wiebke also competes for the Minnesota cross country team. A German, Scandinavian and Dutch studies major, he is a three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection.
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