STANFORD, Calif. – Six Stanford runners were named to the All-Academic cross country team by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Stanford's Tai Dinger, Grant Fisher, Alex Ostberg, and Alek Parsons of the Pac-12 champion men's team, and All-Americas Elise Cranny and Fiona O'Keeffe of the Cardinal women's team received All-Academic recognition.
Cranny, a fifth-year senior, earned her sixth USTFCCCA All-Academic award in cross country and track. She also was a two-time Academic All-American and an NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipient. She also finished her collegiate career as a 12-time All-American and two-time Pac-12 track champion. Her eligibility ended with an 11th-place NCAA cross country finish and Cranny recently signed with the Nike Bowerman Track Club.
Fisher, the NCAA cross country runner-up, is a four-time All-Academic honoree. The past two years, he was named the Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was runner-up for that honor this season. Fisher is a nine-time All-American and the 2017 NCAA outdoor 5,000 champ.
Cranny and Fisher were the 2018 Pac-12 cross country Scholar-Athletes of the Year.
This is the second third cross country All-Academic honor for O'Keeffe, second for Ostberg and Parsons, and first for Dinger.
To qualify, runners must have earned All-America honors at the NCAA Championships (top 40) or placed among the top 25 at an NCAA regional, and have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.3.
Here is the Stanford list:
Men
Tai Dinger, grad., management science and engineering.
Grant Fisher, sr., electrical engineering.
Alex Ostberg, RS jr., human biology.
Alek Parsons, RS so., environmental systems engineering.
Women
Elise Cranny, 5th sr., human biology.
Fiona O'Keeffe, jr., earth systems.
