The ICC women's cross country team was the top NJCAA Academic Team in the country this year with the top 5 achieving a near perfect 3.954 gpa. They nosed out Colby Community College (Colby, KS) and Hutchinson Community College (Hutchinson, KS) which achieved gpa's of 3.866 and 3.855 respectively. Top 5 finishers for ICC were sophomores Brittany Carius, Alyssa Imig, and Jenny Smiles, along with freshmen Kayla Christ and Michelle Carter. Bonni Martin and Raven Pettry rounded out the top 7 for the academic team.
The awards for Academic All-American teams is given by the Cross Country Coaches Association and is determined by the semester grade point averages of team members who were declared for the regional or national championships. Proving that you can be great athletes as well as great students, the team finished 10th at nationals, the highest placing ever for an ICC women's cross country team in Division 1.
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