AUSTIN, TX – Combining elite success as a distance runner with an impressive performance in the classroom, University of Mary senior Alyssa Becker crowned her incredible Marauders scholar-athlete career by garnering a coveted spot on the 2025 Academic All-America® NCAA Division II Women's Track & Field/Cross Country first team as selected by the College Sports Communicators (CSC).
 
This is the first time Becker has claimed a spot on the prestigious CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-America® team.
 
The Seabeck, WA native is one of only six Marauders to ever earn first team Academic All-America® honors from CSC/CoSIDA. She joins UMary's Reece Barnhardt (wrestling) and Isaac Pegor (baseball) as 1^st team selections in 2025, the first time three Marauders have earned 1^st team honors in a single year. This is the second straight season three Marauders have earned Academic All-America® recognition (1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd team).
 
Additionally Becker is the only Northern Sun scholar-athlete on the 15-member first team and one of two total from the NSIC named to the 45-member 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd Academic All-America® teams.
 
Becker graduated this spring from the University of Mary with a degree in Nursing and owns a 3.95 GPA.
 
Becker had a stellar senior season and won both the 2024 Northern Sun and NCAA Central Regional women's cross country championships before placing 6^th at the NCAA cross country championships to earn All-American honors for the second time in her distance career. Becker was the NSIC Senior Cross Country Athlete of the Year and the US Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Central Region Athlete of the Year.
 
During the 2025 NSIC indoor track & field championships Becker won both the 3000 and 5000 meter titles at the NSIC championships and finished as the NSIC High Point Performer on the way to earning NSIC Indoor Track Athlete of the Year recognition. She then earned second team All-American honors at the 2025 NCAA indoor championships.
 
Becker concluded her UMary career as a 4-time All-American (two first team, two second team), won four NSIC individual titles, earned All-NSIC honors 11 times and All-Region honors 13 times, competed in five NCAA championships and was named the NSIC Cross Country Athlete of the Week three times. The Dean's List student earned the Northern Sun Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction award and was named to the NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence nine times and earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors six times.
 
Becker joins Reece Barnhardt (2025 At Large/wrestling 1^st team, 2024 At Large/wrestling 3^rd team), Isaac Pegors (2025 baseball 1^st team), Lexie Schneider (2024 women's basketball 2^nd team), Vanessa Murillo (2023 swimming & diving 1^st team, 2024 swimming & diving 2^nd team), Cal James (2023 baseball 3^rd team), D'Andra Morris (2021 track & field 2nd team, 2022 track & field 3^rd team), Elizabeth Acheson (2022 track & field 3^rd team), Ida Narbuvoll (2021 track & field/cross country 1st team and Academic All-America Team Member of the Year), Andrew Beyer (2017 baseball 3rd team) and John Oyloe (2013 football 1st team) as CSC/CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in UMary NCAA history.
 
To be eligible for CSC Academic All-District® and All-America® consideration, a scholar-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.50 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CSC has bestowed Academic All-America® honors to student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.
 
For more information on the CSC Academic All-America® program, go to academicallamerica.com.
 
The Division II Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structure to assist the College Sports Communicators with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2024-25 Division II Academic All-America® program.
 
UMary CoSIDA/CSC Academic All-Americans
2013 | John Oyloe (1st team Football)
2017 | Andrew Beyer (3rd team Baseball)
2021 | Ida Narbuvoll (1st team Track & Field/Cross Country | Academic All‐America® Team Member of the Year )
2021 | D'Andra Morris (2nd team Track & Field/Cross Country)
2022 | D'Andra Morris (3rd team Track & Field/Cross Country)
2022 | Elizabeth Acheson (3rd team Track & Field/Cross Country)
2023 | Vanessa Murillo (1st team Swimming & Diving)
2023 | Cal James (3rd team Baseball)
2024 | Lexie Schneider (2^nd team women's basketball)
2024 | Vanessa Murillo (2nd team Swimming & Diving)
2024 | Reece Barnhardt (3rdteam At Large/wrestling)
2025 | Isaac Pegors (1^st team Baseball)
2025 | Reece Barnhardt (1^st team At Large/Wrestling)
2025 | Alyssa Becker (1^st team Women's Track & Field/Cross Country)
 
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