Two Aggie men earned the College Sports Communicators honor while five Aggie women earned the recognition on June 24. Photo courtesy of University of California, Davis Athletics

DAVIS, CA (MPG) - Seven members of University of California, Davis track and field earned 2025 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors as announced on June 24 by College Sports Communicators as part of the full roll out of its national track and field academic postseason awards.
 
Two Aggie men, Ryan Ishibashi and Chance Tokubo earned the honor while five Aggie women earned the recognition. Dani Barrett, Madison Kackley, Maya Shinnick, Sydney McCaan and Elizabeth Churchill rounded out the UC Davis representatives on the College Sports Communicators list.
 
Shinnick (400m) and Barrett (10,000m) both qualified for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) West Preliminaries, with Barrett winning the 10,000-Meter Run Big West Championship while setting a program record in the 10,000-Meter Run. Kackley added a school record in the 3,000-Meter Run to showcase a strong athletic performance and academic performance by the seven Aggies.  
 
To qualify athletically for College Sports Communicators Academic honors eligible nominees are based off Track & Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS) regional performance rankings at the time of nomination.

 

Only individually-ranked performances are to be used for eligibility. If a student-athlete has participated in a relay event, that can bolster the nomination but the basic criteria to be met is for individual performances. Relays cannot be the basis for eligibility.

 

For National Collegiate Athletic Association institutions, individuals in cross country with a Top 50 performance at the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association regional competition and individuals in track with a Top 50 regional ranking in a single event for either indoor or outdoor competition are eligible.

 

For National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics institutions, a Top 25 placement in conference for a single event either indoor or outdoor makes participants eligible.

 

To be eligible in the college division, individuals must appear in national ranking in a single event, either indoors or outdoors. 

 

To qualify for College Sports Communicators Academic honors, an undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale); a graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established graduate GPA; and the cumulative grade point average can not be rounded up to 3.50.