The Wabash cross country team was honored Thursday as an All-Academic Team by the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for the fall of 2018. Junior runners Sam Henthorn and John Kirts received individual honors for their efforts both athletically and academically.
 
The Wabash team was one of 393 Division III teams honored by the USTFCCA. Schools earned All-Academic Team accolades from the organization by turning in a score while competing at the NCAA regional level in addition to recording a minimum cumulative grade point of 3.10. Wabash, under head coach Tyler McCreary, finished 13^th at the Great Lakes Regional in November of 2018 and reported a cumulative GPA of 3.48.
 
Henthorn and Kirts earned individual All-Academic honors after meeting the qualifications of maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.30 and finish in the top 25 percent of competitors at the regional championship meet. Henthorn is a classics major and philosophy minor with a 3.75 cumulative GPA. He finished 52^nd out of 265 runners at the Great Lakes Regional in November. Kirts is a religion and Spanish double major and is minoring in English with a 3.82 cumulative GPA. He placed 40^th at the regional competition.
 
A total of 682 men and women competing at the Division III level received All-Academic designations from the USTFCCA.