25 Track & Field Jackets Make All-ACC Academic Team

Charlotte, N.C. – Georgia Tech track and field has placed an impressive 15 women and 10 men on the 2025 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Track & Field Academic Teams, as announced by the conference on Tuesday.

Academic requirements for selection to the All-ACC Indoor Track and Field Academic Team are a 3.0 grade point average for the previous semester and a 3.0 cumulative average during one’s academic career. In addition, student-athletes must have competed in the ACC Indoor Championships and/or NCAA Indoor Championships during the most recent season.

The list features several Jackets who performed well at the ACC Indoor Championships, including 5^th-year senior John Watkins (Hoover, Ala.), who claimed a silver medal in the men’s triple jump, and freshman Adaora Tagbo (Suwanee, Ga.), who placed ninth in the women’s triple jump.

Fifth-year seniors Katy Earwood (Martinez, Ga.), Kate Jortberg (Glenview, Ill.) and Kenzie Walls (Warner Robins, Ga.) all earned top-10 finishes in the women’s 5000 meters, while sophomore Lottie Chappell (Atlanta, Ga.), senior Jill Catton, junior Gracie Marston (Bradenton, Fla.) and senior Mary Brady (Avondale Estates, Ga.) set a program record in the distance medley relay. Sophomore Kendall Ward (Villa Rica, Ga.) and graduate senior Ameia Wilson (Danville, Ill.) posted top-10 finishes in the women’s high jump and long jump, respectively.

Among the honorees are many athletes who earned a spot on the All-ACC Cross Country Academic teams, including Chappell, Earwood, Jortberg, Marston, Walls and fifth-year senior Gracie Driskill (Tucson, Ariz.) on the women’s side, as well as fifth-year senior Myles Collins (Lawrenceville, Ga.), fifth-year senior John Higinbotham (Covington, Ga.), and fifth-year senior Devin Wade (Atlanta, Ga.) from the men’s team.

WOMEN’S SELECTIONS

• Mary Brady / Senior / Biomedical Engineering
• Jill Catton / Senior / Business Administration
• Lottie Chappell / Sophomore / Business Administration
• Grace Driskill / 5^th year Senior / Computational Science and Engineering
• Katy Earwood / 5^th year Senior / Neuroscience
• Sheleah Harris / 5^th year Senior / Masters in Digital Media
• Kate Jortberg / 5^th year Senior / Industrial Engineering
• Gracie Marston / Junior / Mechanical Engineering
• Kennedy Myers / Freshman / Business Administration
• Jade Ofotan / Sophomore / Biomedical Engineering
• Adaora Tagbo / Freshman / Biomedical Engineering
• Kenzie Walls / 5^th year Senior / Literature, Media and Communications
• Kendall Ward / Sophomore / Biology
• Ameia Wilson / Graduate Senior / Masters in International Affairs
• Kimmi Woods / Graduate / Masters in Analytics

MEN’S SELECTIONS

• Parker Buchheit / Senior / Business Administration
• Billy Carlton / Sophomore / Mechanical Engineering
• Myles Collins / 5^th-year Senior / Business Administration
• John Higinbotham / 5^th year Senior / Biology
• Tahir Hines / Freshman / Business Administration
• Kamren Kennedy / Sophomore / Literature, Media and Communications
• Charlie Smith / 5^th year Senior / Masters in Mechanical Engineering
• Alex Thomas / 5^th year Senior / Civil Engineering
• Devin Wade / 5^th year Senior / Industrial Engineering
• John Watkins / 5^th year Senior / Electrical Engineering

Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.