Feb. 14, 2014
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Senior cross country athlete Alec Clifford was named to the 2013 ACC All-Academic team as announced by the league Friday. Clifford was selected among 30 male student-athletes from around the conference.
To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his or her academic career.
The 2013 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men’s cross country is NC State’s Andrew Colley. Florida State’s Colleen Quigley was selected as the 2013 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women’s cross country.
Clifford maintained a 3.41 GPA in biomedical engineering throughout the 2013 season and currently owns a 3.70 cumulative GPA. The Acworth, Ga. native, finished second for Georgia Tech, and sixth overall, in the UGA Invitational with a time of 26:12. He recorded a career-best 8K time of 24:20 in his 13th place finish at the Furman Classic and crossed the finish line with a career-best 10K time of 31:33 at the NCAA South Regionals.
2013 All-ACC Women’s Cross Country Academic Team
Alexa Aragon, Sr., Notre Dame Science Preprofessional
Lindsi Arrington, Sr., Miami Motion Picture Practice
Juliet Bottorff, Gr., Duke Management
Alexandra Clinton, Sr., Syracuse Art
Kelly Curran, Sr., Notre Dame Science-Business
Madeline Davidson, So., Boston College Communications
Courtney Dobbs, Sr., Virginia Tech Finance
Hannah Eckstein, Jr., Notre Dame International Economics
Vicky Fouhy, Gr., Virginia Higher Education
Gabriella Gonzales, Jr., Notre Dame Biology
Linden Hall, Jr., Florida State Dietetics
Annie LeHardy, Jr., North Carolina Journalism/Public Relations
Nicole Irving, Sr., Wake Forest Chemistry with Biology
Samantha Jones, So., Wake Forest Undeclared
Sydney Leiher, Fr., Syracuse Sport Management
Margo Malone, So., Syracuse Biology
Haley Meier, Fr., Duke Undeclared
Morgan Mueller, Sr., Boston College Political Science
Elizabeth O’Brien, So., Boston College Administrative Studies
Emily Pritt, Gr., NC State Communications
Colleen Quigley, Jr., Florida State Dietetics
Molly Seidel, So., Notre Dame Anthropology
Meredith Speakman, So., Syracuse Marketing/Management
Kathleen Stevens, Sr., Virginia Kinesiology
Barbara Strehler, Gr., Virginia English Education
Cara Talty, Sr., Clemson Graphic Communications
Joanna Thompson, Jr., NC State Zoology
Hannah Walker, Jr., Florida State Nutrition & Food Science
Liv Westphal, Jr., Boston College Communication
Elizabeth Whelan, So., North Carolina Studio Art/Communications
Brittany Winslow, Jr., Boston College Environmental Geoscience
Pippa Woolven, So., Florida State Social Science
2013 All-ACC Men’s Cross Country Academic Team
Richard Addison, Sr., Pittsburgh Electrical Engineering
Brian Atkinson, Sr., Duke Biology
Timothy Ball, So., Notre Dame Undeclared
Christian Britto, Sr., Duke Economics
Michael Clevenger, So., Notre Dame Science Preprofessional
Alec Clifford, Sr., Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering
Andrew Colley, Sr., NC State Accounting
Connor Crowley, Jr., Wake Forest Chemistry with Biochemistry
Martin Grady, Sr., Notre Dame Accountancy
Griffith Graves, Gr., Syracuse New Media Management
Roland Hakes, So., Clemson History
Martin Hehir, Jr., Syracuse Biology
Kevin Johnson, Gr., Florida State Finance
Reed Kamyszek, Sr., Syracuse Biochemistry & Ethics
Jacob Kildoo, Jr., Notre Dame Philosophy
Patrick Lesiewicz, Sr., Notre Dame Mathematics
Thomas Madden, Fr., Virginia Undeclared
John Paul Malette, Gr., Notre Dame Accelerated MBA
Michael Mansy, Jr., NC State Business Administration
Robert Molke, Sr., Syracuse Marketing
Scott Morgan, Jr., North Carolina Mathematical Decision Sciences
Michael Moverman, Gr., Duke Management
Drew Paisley, Sr., Virginia Kinesiology
Thomas Porter, Gr., Virginia Kinesiology
Jacob Poyner, Fr., Wake Forest Undeclared
Isaac Presson, Sr., North Carolina Business
Alex Rose, Sr., Wake Forest Finance
Max Straneva, Sr., Syracuse Heath & Exercise Science
Shaun Thompson, Jr., Duke Biophysics
Jacob Zivec, Sr., Florida State Finance