The men sported the highest ranked team GPA from the MAC while the women finished fifth amongst league teams with Bowling Green (11th, 3.63 GPA) leading the conference.

This was the second straight year both the Ohio men's and women's cross country teams have earned the national honor.

For a team to be considered for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team award, they must have competed and compiled a team score at an NCAA Regional Meet. The team must also have a minimum 3.00 team cumulative grade point average.

In all, 158 Division I women's programs received the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honor.  There are 325 teams in Division I that sponsor women's cross country.  Of the 158 teams on the list, 35 of them had team GPAs over 3.50.  South Florida, from the Big East Conference, led all schools with a team GPA of 3.78. 

Thirty-one teams competed at the NCAA Championships this past November and of those 31, an unprecedented 26 teams received the All-Academic Team award, an astonishing 84 percent of the field.  This included eight teams in the top ten. 

The Big 12 Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference had the most programs on the All-Academic Team list with ten apiece.  The Big East Conference, Big Ten Conference and the Missouri Valley Conference each had nine teams on the list. 

On the men's side, Belmont University of the Atlantic Sun Conference had the highest overall team grade point average with a 3.57.  Overall, 98 men's Division I programs received the USTFCCCA's academic honor, which is just under a third of all Division schools that sponsor men's cross country (299).  The numbers at this year's NCAA Championships were also impressive: 16 of the 31 teams in the field received the All-Academic Team award.