Katie Burnham Named CoSIDA Academic All-District
5/29/2018 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
Official Release | Google Cloud Academic All-District, presented by CoSIDA 
USAF ACADEMY, Colo. -- Air Force senior Katie Burnham was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District VII Women's Track/Field and Cross Country Team, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced today (May 29). With first-team distinction at the district level, Burnham will be placed on the Academic All-America ballot.
With a 3.95 GPA in mathematics, Burnham competed in every cross country race for the Falcons' this season after helping Air Force to a program best finish at the conference meet (second) and its first-ever NCAA appearance in 2016. The senior clocked the ninth-fastest 5000-meter time in Academy history (17:02.38) at the 2017 Drake Relays and ran a leg of the distance medley relay that posted the program's ninth-fastest time (12:05.02, adjusted for altitude) at the conference meet that year, while also competing in the 1500-meter and mile events.
A six-time academic all-conference selection and five-time Mountain West Scholar-Athlete, Burnham was awarded the Draper Laboratory Fellowship to work on national defense projects while earning a master's degree in Operations Research at MIT next fall. A member of the Academy's Scholar Program, she also served as the cross country team captain and was the lead of the Academy group that won the Analytics Challenge at the University of Denver.
To be nominated for CoSIDA Academic All-District honors, a student-athlete must have completed at least one full academic year at their institution, be a significant contributor and carry a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.30 or higher. The academic awards for District VII are voted on by CoSIDA members from Division I programs in Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming.
Burnham is the 19th different Falcon to earn academic all-district honors from CoSIDA (25 total occurrences), as the Falcons' track, field and cross country program has accounted for at least one academic all-district selection during 12 of the last 13 years.
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