CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – North Carolina’s Makayla Paige has been named the 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Indoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year, while the Tar Heels’ Ethan Strand earned the ACC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor. The duo highlight the 2024 All-ACC Academic Teams for Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track & Field, announced by the league office on Tuesday.
Paige has been named to the All-ACC Academic Team for the third time in her career after a stellar indoor track & field season, which was highlighted by an individual national championship. Paige capped off her season by finishing first in the 800-meters at the NCAA Championships, clocking in at 2:00.39, which set a new facility record. She became the first Tar Heel woman to win a national championship since 2018.
A senior from Tewksbury, Massachusetts, Paige is majoring in geological sciences. She is the first woman from North Carolina to be named the Women’s Indoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year since Nicole Greene in 2018.
Strand became the first collegiate runner to ever run a sub-3:50 mile, clocking an NCAA-record time of 3:48.32 in his first meet of the season. In his next appearance, Strand shattered another NCAA record, this time in the 3000-meters, clocking in at 7:30.15. At the NCAA Championships, Strand became the first Tar Heel male to win an individual national championship since 2003, winning the 3,000-meters in a time of 7:52.03.
Strand, a senior from Vestavia, Alabama, is majoring in Exercise and Sport Science. He becomes the first Tar Heel to ever be named the ACC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Earlier this year, Strand was named the USTFCCCA Division I National Track Athlete of the Year and the ACC Indoor Track Athlete of the Year.
This also marks the first time that one program has earned both ACC Indoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year honorees since Virginia Tech in 2017.
All 448 All-ACC Academic Team selections for Indoor Track & Field can be found below.
Woen’s Indoor Track & Field
ACC Women’s Indoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Makayla Paige, North Carolina
Name, School, Academic Year, Major
Yasmine, Abbes, Boston College, Gr. , Sports Administration (MS)
Anna Becker , Boston…
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