STANFORD, Calif. -- Four Stanford athletes earned Academic All-America recognition for the first time, as the Google Cloud Academic All-America Division I Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track & Field teams were announced Thursday.
Repeat NCAA women's javelin champion Mackenzie Little joined distance runner Fiona O'Keeffe on the women's second team. NCAA champions Steven Fahy and Harrison Williams were named to the men's second team.
Little, completed her collegiate career with four Pac-12 javelin titles, four first-team All-America honors and two NCAA championships. Little, a senior, majored in human biology and earned a 3.59 cumulative GPA. She ranks No. 5 on the all-time collegiate performers' list.
Fahy, a fifth-year human biology major with a 3.76 GPA, won the 2019 NCAA 3,000 steeplechase title on June 7 in Austin. He tripped over the final barrier while leading, but recovered in time to get up and win the race to the finish line. Fahy is a two-time Pac-12 champion and the first from Stanford to win an NCAA steeple crown.
Williams, a fifth-year product design major with a 3.66 GPA, won the 2019 NCAA indoor heptathlon title and was the NCAA outdoor decathlon runner-up. He was the 2018 Pac-12 decathlon champion and was recently named a recipient of the Tom Hansen Conference Medal by the Pac-12 for his athletics, academics, and leadership.
O'Keeffe, a junior majoring in Earth systems with a 3.97 GPA, is a five-time All-America. She was third in the NCAA indoor 5,000 and seventh in the NCAA outdoor 5,000. She captured the MPSF indoor title in the 3,000 and was the Pac-12 outdoor runner-up in the 5,000.
The honors give Stanford cross country and track and field 34 Academic All-America honors, earned by 29 individuals.
CoSIDA Academic All-America team
Division I Track and Field/Cross Country
Women
Second team
Mackenzie Little, Sr., Sydney, Australia, 3.59, human biology.
Fiona O'Keeffe, Jr., Davis, Calif., 3.97, Earth systems.
Men
Second team
Steven Fahy, 5th Sr., Carlsbad, Calif., 3.76, human biology.
Harrison Williams, 5th Sr., Memphis, Tenn., 3.66, product design.
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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
2019: Steven Fahy, XC/TF, second team
2019: Harrison Williams, 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
2019: Mackenzie Little, XC/TF, second team
2019: Fiona O'Keeffe, XC/TF, second team
