Van Klinken Named Academic All-America Team Member of the Year

AUSTIN, Texas – The postseason honors keep rolling in for Jorinde van Klinken! For the second consecutive season the Assen, Netherlands, native has earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Van Klinken also earned the CoSIDa Academic All-America Team Member of the Year award, the highest academic honor among Division I track and field student-athletes. Van Klinken compiled a 4.00 cumulative grade-point average in her global management and global business program. She’s one of four Pac-12 First Team Academic All-Americans and is the second-consecutive Sun Devil T&F athlete to earn Team Member of the Year honors following Turner Washington last season.
 
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Van Klinken a Semifinalist for The Bowerman

Jordine van Klinken highlights the 2022 @CoSIDAnews @NCAA track & field Academic All-America® Team as the @ASU & @SunDevilTFXC grad captured the prestigious Team Member of the Year honor.

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— CoSIDA Academic All-America® (@CoSIDAAcadAA) June 21, 2022

Jorinde van Klinken has been absolutely dominant in just two years at Arizona State. The six-time All-American has three NCAA titles, a program record, is a semi-finalist for The Bowerman for the second straight season, was a Tokyo 2020 Olympian, and went undefeated in the discus over two years (14-0).

 

Van Klinken claims her inaugural first team Academic All-America award after making the second team in 2021. The graduate student concluded her two-year outdoor ASU track and field career by defending her discus title at the NCAA Division I championships June 11 in Eugene, Oregon. She won the Pac-12 women’s Field Athlete of the Year award following both the 2021 and 2022 outdoor seasons; she won both the shot put and the discus at the 2022 Pac-12 championships after claiming gold in the discus in the 2021 conference championships; she won the 2022 NCAA indoor shot title and followed that by winning the 2022 NCAA discus title; she earned silver in this year’s shot put final; and she holds the program discus record. Van Klinken also earned ASU’s Heather Farr Award earlier this spring.

 

Jorinde van Klinken Career Honors

USTFCCCA Honors

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