Meyrer, Dodd Earn Academic All-America Honors
6/22/2022 12:00:00 PM
// Kyle Terwillegar
• Michigan’s Academic All-Amercians
ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Current graduates Devin Meyrer and Tom Dodd from the University of Michigan males’s track and field/cross nation groups were called to the Academic All-America group by the College Sports Info Directors of America on Wednesday (June 22).
For Meyrer, this marked the 2nd successive year of addition amongst the ranks of the country’s leading student-athletes, as he went up from the 3rd group in 2021 to the junior varsity in 2022.
Dodd made the honor for the very first time in his quick, however embellished, Michigan profession, and was called to the 3rd group.
Both males were approved addition on the nationwide group in a vote of CoSIDA members previously this month after having actually been called to the Academic All-District group last month.
Meyrer signed up with four-time honoree– and present director of track and field/cross nation– Kevin Sullivan and three-time honoree Mason Ferlic as the only males in program history to build up several Academic All-America awards.
Dodd ended up being the seventh male in program history to earn a minimum of one Academic All-America citation.
A college student from Wildwood, Mo., who finished this spring with a master’s of social work on the Interpersonal Practice in Integrated Health, Mental Health and Drug abuse path, Meyrer is a three-time All-American in between cross nation and track and a multiple-time Huge 10 Champions scorer.
Throughout the 2021-22 academic year, Meyrer was among the Wolverines’ leading runners on the cross nation group and a constant existence on the track. He made All-Big 10 and All-Region honors and contended for Michigan at the NCAA Championships. He directly missed out on scoring for the Wolverines at the Big 10 Indoor and Outdoor Championships in deep range races.
In previous years, Meyrer two times made All-America honors in cross nation and gathered second-team All-America honors for the indoor 5,000 meters– an occasion in which he likewise owns the school record at 13:40.66.
A college student from Birmingham, England, who finished this spring with a master’s degree in motion science, Dodd is a two-time All-American and three-time NCAA Championships rival in the mid-distance occasions.
Dodd broke 4 minutes in the mile 3 various times in 2021 en path to making first-team All-America honors, and went on to get approved for the NCAA Outdoor Championships at 1,500 meters. After making All-Big 10 honors in cross nation in the fall of 2021, he made first-team All-America honors in his only 2022 indoor look as a member of the range collection relay.
This spring, he ended up 4th in the Big 10 1,500 meters and advanced to the NCAA East Initial Rounds for the 2nd straight season.