STANFORD, Calif. – Sophomore sprinter Maya Valmon and junior distance runner Zofia Dudek were named to the Academic All-America first team for cross country/track and field on Wednesday by College Sports Communicators.
Valmon, from Rockville, Maryland, earned her first four All-America honors in 2023, highlighted by winning an NCAA indoor championship in the distance medley relay. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Valmon ran the 400-meter leg on the NCAA-winning DMR. The same foursome also won the DMR at the Penn Relays.
Valmon earned second-team All-America honors on three relay teams -- indoors in the 4x400, and outdoors in the 4x100 and 4x400. She set school records outdoors in the 400 (51.71), 4x100 (43.69), and DMR (10:50.56). Valmon also set school records indoors in the 4x400 (3:31.71) and DMR (10:49.30) on oversized tracks, and in the 400 (53.01) on a 200-meter track.
Through the winter quarter, Valmon, who had yet to declare a major, carried a 3.74 cumulative grade-point average.
Dudek, a native of Warsaw, Poland, via Ann Arbor, Michigan, earned her first two All-America honors in 2022-23 – in cross country and indoor track and field. Dudek was 20th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships and third in the NCAA West Region race.
On the track, she earned second-team All-America honors by placing 13th in the 5,000 at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Dudek broke the Polish indoor record in the 5,000, running 15:40.41 – the third-fastest time in Stanford indoor history. She broke the Polish under-23 outdoor 5,000 record by running 15:32.89 at the Bryan Clay Invitational.
Dudek, a bioengineering major, carried a 3.79 cumulative GPA through the winter quarter.
Stanford cross country and track and field now has 20 Academic All-America honors earned by 17 different women.
College Sports Communicators Academic All-America team
Division I Track and Field/Cross Country
Women
First team
Zofia Dudek, Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich., 3.79, bioengineering.
Maya Valmon, So., Rockville, Md., 3.74, undeclared.
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Here is a list of Stanford cross country and track and field's women's Academic All-Americans:
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
2022: Christina Aragon, XC/TF, first team
2022: Allie Jones, XC/TF, second team
2023: Zofia Dudek, XC/TF, first team
2023: Maya Valmon, XC/TF, first team