Wolverine Quintet Named to CSC Academic All-District Team
5/31/2023 6:33:00 PM
// Gabrielle Healy
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sophie Isom, Aurora Rynda, Savannah Sutherland, Sam Tran and Kayla Windemuller were named College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honorees on Wednesday (May 31), the organization announced.
Sutherland’s excellent academic performance while pursuing a degree in biology, health, and society is even more impressive in tandem with a breakout year for athletic performance. Heading into the 2023 outdoor NCAA Track and Field Championships, Sutherland won the 400-meter hurdles at East Preliminaries. She also holds the 400-meter hurdles, indoor 200 meter and is part of the indoor 4×400 and outdoor 4×100 school records. Sutherland also earned a Canadian 400-meter (indoor) record, first team All-America honors, first-team All-Big Ten honors (indoor and outdoor), two Big Ten Women’s Track Athlete of the Week, and the Michigan Showstopper of the Year award.
As a graduate transfer, Isom had a strong year on and off the track. She is a 2023 U-M Athletic Academic Achievement award honoree, earned with a high grade-point average while pursuing her Master of Applied Economics. She also earned second team All-America (indoor), first team All-Big Ten (indoor), is a member of the school-record setting indoor 4×400 relay and received the Michigan Showstopper of the Year award. She will compete in the 4×400 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Rynda grabbed her 11th Big Ten title this season while graduating with a degree in Gender, Health, and Society. Rynda also won three Big-Ten titles this season (indoor 600m, indoor distance medley relay, outdoor 800m), earned first team All-America honors, helped set a facility record in the distance medley relay at the Big Ten Championships, earned first team All-Big Ten (indoor and outdoor), and will compete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships to close the season.
Studying movement science, Tran was a member of the Big Ten title-winning distance medley relay team this season and earned cross country All-Great Lakes Region and second team All-Big Ten honors.
Windemuller studied public health and earned second team All-Big Ten honors (outdoor).
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