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2022-2023 CSC Academic All-District Women's Track & Field Teams

May 31, 2023 - The North Central College women's track and field team has been recognized with five selections to the 2022-2023 NCAA Division III Academic All-District Teams, as selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC). The awards, which recognized combined academic and athletic excellence, are nominated and voted upon by the CSC membership, which includes more than 3,000 members at higher education institutions in the United States and Canada.

North Central's honorees are sprinter/hurdler Julia Babinec, thrower Alexandra Draves, multi-event athlete Hannah Jones, middle distance runner Emmy Mussey and sprinter Lindsey Novak.

Babinec, a master's student in higher education leadership, placed second in the 60-meter hurdles, seventh in the 200-meter dash and 12th in the 60-meter dash at the CCIW Indoor Championship before placing 10th in the 60-meter hurdles at the Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships. Babinec won the 100-meter hurdles, 400-meter hurdles and 4-by-100-meter relay at the CCIW Outdoor Championship before finishing ninth in the 100-meter hurdles and 10th in the 4-by-100 relay at the Division III Outdoor Championship. 

Draves, an MBA student, won the 20-pound weight throw at the CCIW Indoor Championship before placing second at the Division III Outdoor Championship with a career-best distance of 18.99 meters (62 feet, 3.75 inches). Draves won the hammer throw at the CCIW Outdoor Championship before finishing 10th at the Division III Outdoor Championship. Draves has held North Central's indoor record in the weight throw since 2020. 

Jones, a biology major, ran on the winning 4-by-400-meter relay team and placed fifth in the pentathlon at the CCIW Indoor Championship. Jones won the javelin throw at the CCIW Outdoor Championship while also finishing third in the heptathlonand fourth in the 400-meter hurdles. Jones ran on the Cardinals' 4-by-400-meter relay team at the Division III Outdoor Championship, placing 16th.

Mussey, an exercise science major, placed 27th at the CCIW Cross Country Championship, then finished fourth in the distance medley relay and 14th in the 800-meter run at the CCIW Indoor Track & Field Championship before a 13th-place showing in the 1,500-meter run at the CCIW Outdoor Championship.

Novak, a psychology major, placed first in the 200-meter dash and 4-by-400-meter relay and fourth in the 60- and 400-meter dashes at the CCIW Indoor Championship, then placed 13th in the 400 and 16th in the 200 at the Division III Indoor Championship. Novak won the 200, 400 and 4-by-100 relay at the CCIW Outdoor Championship, earning the conference's Track Athlete of the Meet award, then earned All-America honors with a fifth-place finish in the 400 and an eighth-place showing in the 200 at the Division III Outdoor Championship. Novak established new North Central records in the indoor 200-meter dash (25.00 seconds) and the outdoor 100- (11.94) and 200-meter dashes (24.34) in 2023.

The Cardinals won the CCIW cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field titles in 2022-2023. The CSC Academic All-America Teams will be announced in late June.
 
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