2021-22 Women's Cross Country/Track & Field CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams
Stonehill's All-Time Academic All-District Selections
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Erhard |
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Lightbody |
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Mason |
EASTON, Mass. (May 28, 2022) – Three members of the Stonehill College women's cross country and track & field program have earned spots on the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District® First Team, as selected by CoSIDA members in Division II from the East Region.
Recent graduate Claire Mason earned CoSIDA Academic All-District® first team honors for the second-straight year, while fellow graduate Rebecca Erhard and junior Haley Lightbody collect Academic All-District® honors for the first time. The trio, combined with Stonehill's two men's cross country/track & field Academic All-District® selections, gives the Skyhawks five combined honorees overall. The three women's selections are the sixth time the program has had multiple CoSIDA Academic All-District® selections and bring the total up to 33 Academic All-District® honorees all-time. The trio is now eligible for Academic All-America® selection, as voted by CoSIDA members later in June.
Erhard, who graduated with a 3.52 grade point average (GPA) while studying accounting and minoring in Spanish and mathematics, most recently earned her first NE10 Scholar-Athlete for Sports Excellence award. Erhard assisted Stonehill to a third-place finish at the Northeast-10 Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships this spring, where she took home seventh in the 5k with a time of 18:24.12 (personal record) and fourth in the 10k at 38:11.40 (personal record). Her times in the 5k and 10k were one of the 10 fastest in the NE10 (seventh in the 5k and fourth in the 10k).
Erhard earned her first U.S. Track & Field Cross Country and Track & Field (USTFCCCA) All-Academic honor and has competed in both the NCAA Division II East Region Cross Country Championships and NCAA Cross Country Championships twice. In her most recent appearance at the NCAA Division II East Region Cross Country Championships, she set a personal record in the 6k at 21:46.8 (fifth place). Erhard has garnered plenty of other honors in her Stonehill career including NE10 Academic Honor Roll (five times), Athletic Director's honor roll (two times), Dean's List (two times), and received the DII ADA Academic Achievement Award.
Lightbody, who majored in biology, finished with a 3.43 GPA, and highlighted her junior year with USTFCCCA All-East Region honors, bringing her career total to two. She took home first place in the pole vault at the NE10 Indoor Track and Field Championships for the second time in her career with a leap of 10' 8' (3.25m) as the team finished fourth overall. During the outdoor season, Lightbody earned her third All-Conference honor after finishing third in the pole vault at 10'6" (3.21m) as the team came in third at the meet. Lightbody has also earned numerous other awards during her time with the purple and white including USTFCCCA All-Academic Team, All-New England, NE10 Field Rookie of the Year, NE10 Rookie of the Week (three times), and was the NE10 Rookie of the Year.
Mason, who graduated with a 3.52 GPA studied Psychology and Business Management, earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors for not only her strong grades in the fall semester but her strong performance during the cross country season. Mason ran a career-best 22:57.1 (29th place) on the 6k course at the NCAA Division II East Region Cross Country Championships for her fourth top-30 finish of the year. During the outdoor track season, Mason mostly ran in the 800-meter and notched top-five finishes in five out of the six meets she competed in including a season-best time of 2:19.12 for a fourth-place finish at the Holy Cross Invitational. Her strong time was the fifth-fastest time in the entire NE10. In her time with Stonehill, Mason has also earned the following: NE10 Academic Honor Roll (four times), Dean's List (twice), Athletic Director's Honor Roll, USTFCCCA All-East Region Team (DMR), NE10 All-Conference (twice), and is a Division II ADA Academic Achievement Award recipient.
With 23 intercollegiate sports when women's ice hockey takes to the ice for the first time in 2022-23, Stonehill boasts one of the top athletic and academic programs in the country. A charter member of the NCAA Division II Northeast-10 Conference since 1980, the College announced that the athletic department will begin a transition to NCAA Division I as a member of the Northeast Conference on July 1 for the 2022-23 academic year. Stonehill has won the NE10 Presidents' Cup six times, all coming within the last 15 years. The Skyhawks have received the NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Achievement each of the first ten years of the program's existence of honoring institutions with an Academic Success Rate (ASR) of 90-percent or better. The Skyhawks' 92-percent ASR for the cohort period of 2011-2014 ranks fifth among NE10 members and 20th nationally among 303 NCAA Division II member institutions, with seven program's earning perfect ASR scores of 100%. The College ranks No. 98 in the category of National Liberal Arts Schools by U.S. News & World Report and No. 94 for the Best Value category.
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