McDowell and Smith earn USTFCCCA All-America honors

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Olivet College sophomore Kyle McDowell and junior Jacob Smith have earned All-America honors, according to the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Normal policies dictate that All-America honors are awarded to student-athletes who score any portion of a team point (top-eight in the final of an individual event or as a member of a top-eight placing relay event) at the NCAA Championships.

In lieu of conduction of the national championship this season, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA Division III Executive Committee adopted the following criteria:

Based on the selected participants for the national championships initially announced by the NCAA on Sunday, March 8, the following will be recognized as All-America for the 2020 Indoor Track & Field season.

• Individual events: ALL student-athletes declared and initially accepted into their event.
• Relay events: Members of ALL relays who produced the performance that was declared and initially accepted into their event.

McDowell was scheduled to compete in the 400-meter dash at the national championships. His seed time was 49.60 seconds, which is an Olivet indoor record. Smith was set to compete in the shot put for a second straight season. He was seeded No. 16 with a school-record mark of 53 feet, 8-1/4 inches.