Two Named Academic All-America

STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford's Elise Cranny earned her third Academic All-America honor and Tai Dinger his first as the Google Cloud Academic All-America Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track & Field teams were announced Thursday.

Cranny was named to the first team, after earning a third-team (2016) and second-team (2017) selections. She is an 11-time All-America and carries a 3.87 GPA as a human biology major. Cranny holds school records in the outdoor 1,500 (4:09.49), indoor mile (4:31.29), and the indoor distance medley relay (10:52.02). She recently was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. This year, on the track, she won the Pac-12 outdoor 5,000 title and the MPSF indoor mile crown, she was third in the NCAA outdoor 1,500 and fifth in the NCAA indoor mile.  

Cranny is the only Stanford woman to earn the honor three times and the first first-team selection since Kathy Kroeger in 2012.

Dinger was named to the second team. He is an All-America who carries a 3.99 GPA as a molecular and cell biology major.

Both Cranny and Dinger were members of Stanford's cross-country teams that each placed fourth at NCAA's. Dinger also helped the Cardinal to its first Pac-12 men's cross country crown in seven years while earning Pac-12 All-Academic first-team honors.

The honors gives Stanford cross country and track and field its 30th and 31st Academic All-America honors, earned by 25 individuals.

CoSIDA Academic All-America team
Division I Track and Field/Cross Country

Women
First team
Elise Cranny, Sr., Niwot, Colo., 3.87, human biology
 
Men
Second team
Tai Dinger, Sr., Washington, D.C., molecular and cell biology
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Here is a list of Stanford cross country and track and field Academic All-Americans:

Men
Year, Name, Category, Team
1999: Adam Connolly, At Large, first team
2002: Donald Sage, XC/TF, third team
2004: Adam Tenforde, XC/TF, first team
2007: Russell Brown, XC/TF, third team
2009: Garrett Heath, XC/TF, first team
2011: Chris Derrick, XC/TF, first team
2011: Elliott Heath, XC/TF, first team
2011: Miles Unterreiner, XC/TF, first team
2012: Chris Derrick, XC/TF, first team
2012: Elliott Heath, XC/TF, first team
2012: Miles Unterreiner, XC/TF, first team
2015: Marco Bertolotti, XC/TF, first team
2015: Luke Lefebure, XC/TF, first team
2016: Justin Brinkley, XC/TF, second team
2016: Sean McGorty, XC/TF, second team
2016: Harrison Williams, XC/TF, third team
2018: Tai Dinger, XC/TF, second team   

Women
Year, Name, Category, Team
1983: Kim Schnurpfeil, At Large, second team
1984: PattiSue Plumer, At Large, second team
1999: Sarna Renfro, At Large, second team
2002: Caroline Annis, XC/TF, third team
2007: Arianna Lambie, XC/TF, first team
2011: Kate Niehaus, XC/TF, first team
2012: Kathy Kroeger, XC/TF, first team
2012: Arantxa King, XC/TF, second team
2013: Kathy Kroeger, XC/TF, second team
2015: Jessica Tonn, XC/TF, second team
2016: Elise Cranny, XC/TF, third team
2016: Kristyn Williams, XC/TF, third team
2017: Elise Cranny, XC/TF, second team
2018: Elise Cranny, XC/TF, first team