Track: Olivet College’s Weaver earns Academic All-District honors for second straight year

OLIVET, Mich. – Recent Olivet College graduate Jalen Weaver has earned 2015 Capital One Academic All-District VI Cross Country/Track and Field honors, as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). He now eligible to earn Capital One Academic All-America® honors, which will be announced next month. A year ago, Weaver was named to the Academic All-District VI team before earning second-team Academic All-America® honors.

Weaver, who had a 3.8119 GPA in exercise science, placed sixth in the 800-meter run at the 2015 NCAA Division III National Indoor Track & Field Championships. With that performance, he became the first Olivet student-athlete to earn All-American honors at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships.

This spring, Weaver won the 800-meter run at the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Field Day for a second straight year. The win gave him a spot on the All-MIAA Men's Track & Field Team for a second consecutive year.

Weaver is the school-record indoor (1:53.15) and outdoor (1:52.43) holder in the 800-meter. He also holds the school indoor records in the 400-meter dash (:51.46), 600-meter run (1:22.21) and 1,000-meter run (2:35.92). Weaver also ran legs of the indoor school-record 4x400-meter and distance medley relays.

In addition, Weaver was a four-year letterwinner on the men's cross country team. His career-best 8K time was 27:22.7 at the 2014 MIAA Championships.

Weaver served as vice president Phi Epsilon Kappa, and was a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Global Citizen's Honors Program. He also participated in several community service projects on and off the Olivet campus.

The Academic All-District teams include the student-athletes listed on the following pages and are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. Olivet is in District VI, which includes schools in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is the third year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moved from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I) and has doubled the number of scholar-athletes honored.

The expanded teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division Academic All-America® Team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.