STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford's four men's cross country/track and field Academic All-Americans combined for three NCAA championships in the 2022-23 academic year, nine All-America honors, two Pac-12 titles, and broke school records 17 times. Each also maintained cumulative grade-point averages above 3.50.
Junior distance runner Ky Robinson, fifth-year senior thrower Max McKhann, and junior horizontal jumper Kevin Yang were named to the first team Thursday by College Sports Communicators. Sophomore sprinter Udodi Onwuzurike was named to the second team.
Robinson was named USTFCCCA National Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year after winning the 5,000 meters and 10,000 at the NCAA Championships, scoring 20 of Stanford's 44 points on the way to placing third as a team.
Robinson earned five All-America honors – one in cross country and two each in indoor and outdoor track – and now has nine altogether. Robinson was the West Region Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year and a Bowerman award semifinalist. He broke school records indoors in the 3,000 and 5,000. The latter time of 13:11.53 is the fourth-fastest in collegiate indoor history and is a Stanford absolute record (including indoors and outdoors).
The Brisbane, Australia, native was 23rd at the World Cross Country Championships in February while competing for his home country on home soil. A management science and engineering major, Robinson maintained a 3.58 cumulative GPA through the winter quarter.
McKhann, a fifth-year senior, was a second-team indoor All-American in the 35-pound weight throw, earning his second All-America honor. McKhann rewrote the Stanford record book in that event, breaking or tying the school record in that event five times in 2023 and six times altogether. He graduates with the standard at 73-9 (22.48m) and also is No. 7 in the hammer throw on Stanford's all-timer performers' list.
The Dana Point native and economics major maintained a cumulative 3.51 GPA through the winter quarter.
Yang, a native of Roswell, Georgia, won the Pac-12 title in the triple jump, traveling 51-3 ¾ (15.64m) to win at Mt. San Antonio College. Yang moved up to No. 7 on Stanford's all-time outdoor performers' list and to No. 10 indoors. The junior maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.65 through winter quarter while majoring in computer science.
Onwuzurike was the Pac-12 Men's Track Athlete of the Year. The sophomore became the first male from Stanford to win an NCAA 200 title (or its' equivalent) since Clyde Jeffrey won the straight 220 yards in 1939. He also won the 200 and was second in the 100 at the Pac-12 Championships.
Onwuzurike, a sophomore, earned three first-team All-America honors – placing fifth in the 200 indoors and sixth in the 100 outdoors, in addition to his outdoor 200 victory, at NCAA championship meets. He has five All-America honors altogether.
The native of West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, has broken school records 18 times, including 10 times in 2023. In collegiate history, he ranks No. 7 indoors in the 200 (20.17), No. 3 outdoors in the 200 (19.76), and No. 13 outdoors in the 100 (9.92). He holds school records indoors in the 60 (6.59) and 200, and outdoors in the 100, 200, and 4x100 relay (39.56).
Onwuzurike, who competes for Nigeria internationally, is No. 4 in African history in the outdoor 200, No. 3 in the indoor 200, and No. 11 in the outdoor 100. The 2021 world under-20 200 champ is expected to compete at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in August.
Onwuzurike maintained a 3.51 cumulative GPA through the winter quarter.
The honors give Stanford cross country and track and field men 25 Academic All-America honors, earned by 21 individuals.
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CoSIDA Academic All-America team
Division I Track and Field/Cross Country
Men
First team
Max McKhann, 5th Sr., Dana Point, Calif., 3.51, economics
Ky Robinson, Jr., Brisbane, Australia, 3.58, management science and engineering
Kevin Yang, Jr., Roswell, Ga., 3.65, computer science
Second team
Udodi Onwuzurike, So., West Bloomfield Township, Mich., 3.51, undeclared
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Here is a list of Stanford's men's cross country and track and field Academic All-Americans:
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
2022: Charles Hicks, XC/TF, third team
2022: Keyshawn King, XC/TF, third team
2023: Max McKhann, XC/TF, first team
2023: Ky Robinson, XC/TF, first team
2023: Kevin Yang, XC/TF, first team
2023: Udodi Onwuzurike, XC/TF, second team