2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Teams (women's track & field)
2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Individuals (women's track & field)
2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic Individuals (men's track & field)

NEW ORLEANS -- In a Wednesday announcement by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, Academy of Art University track & field had five Urban Knights earn All-Academic Individual awards in addition to the fifth All-Academic Team honor in program history for the women's squad. Distance runners Lisa Redlinger, Katharina Goetschl, mid-distance runner Michaela Andrews, and sprinter Erine Collard were among the individuals featured on the women's side while the men's team was represented by sprinter Makarios Page.

In order to make the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team list, a program must have collectively delivered a 3.00 cumulative team grade point average or higher for the year. The academic success of 17 women's track & field student-athletes was factored into a 3.08 GPA with 14 of those individuals posting or contributing to times/distances that were NCAA Division II provisional marks across the indoor and outdoor seasons. To read more about what Academy of Art achieved this season, click here. There were a total of 100 women's teams honored by the USTFCCCA for their academic success.

To qualify for USTFCCCA All-Academic honors individually, the student-athlete must have compiled a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.25 and have reached a provisional or automatic qualifying standard for the NCAA Championships in either the indoor or outdoor seasons.

Lisa Redlinger
Coming off a debut cross country season in which she led the team in three races, Redlinger set several new program records during the Urban Knights' indoor and outdoor track & field campaigns while delivering a 3.75 cumulative GPA in the School of Interaction & UI/UX Design. Her second collegiate race on the track saw Redlinger post her fastest 3000m of the indoor season, putting her fourth in program history after her 9:53.16 at the Marlin Invitational. Less than one month later, the native of Lustenau, Austria broke the ART U record in the 5000m, going 17:00.89 at DII Indoor Track & Field Pre-Nationals in Virginia. She ended the indoor campaign among the nation's top 35 in the 5000m and top 45 in the 3000m while earning USTFCCCA All-Region honors, in both events.

Two more program records would come from Redlinger during the outdoor season as she took over the top spot in the mile (5:10.34) at the Mike Fanelli Track Classic. After adding her best 5000m run of the year (17:05.71) at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational to put herself fifth in Academy of Art history, the Interaction & UI/UX Design major bettered the fastest 10,000m by an Urban Knight to date with her 35:06.72 at the Bryan Clay Invitational which led her to her third USTFCCCA All-Region honor and top 26 national ranking. She would go on to make the podium at the PacWest Championships, finishing third in the 10,000m. This is the second USTFCCCA All-Academic Individual honor for Redlinger, an Academic All-PacWest Team selection, after she was honored in cross country.
 
Katharina Goetschl
Competing for the first time in an ART U uniform during the indoor track & field season, Goetschl showed her versatility with All-Region honors in four different events while working toward a 3.72 cumulative GPA in the School of Industrial Design. Following her contributions anchoring an 11:56.36 in the distance medley relay at the WSU Open & Combined Events that was top 45 in the country, the final weekend of indoor action featured some of Goetschl's best times as she went 9:56.41 in the 3000m at the Fasttrack Last Chance Invitational and 4:58.06 in the mile at the Last Chance Indoor National Qualifier, both top-five marks in program history. She would close the indoor season as USTFCCCA All-Region in the mile, 3000m, and DMR.

Goetschl would compete in four different events over the course of the outdoor schedule, posting her best marks in the 800m, 5000m, and 3000m steeplechase in successive meets in the first half of April. She highlighted the Bryan Clay Invitational with the second-fastest 3000m steeplechase mark in Academy of Art history, going 10:46.64 and eventually capturing a USTFCCCA All-Region selection as a result. The native of Oberndorf an der Melk, Austria was then crowned the event's PacWest Champion two weeks later. On the Academic All-PacWest Team in her debut year, Goetschl also collects the first USTFCCCA All-Academic Individual honor in her ART U career.

Michaela Andrews
A strong first year with Academy of Art saw Andrews not only add her name to multiple program top-five lists, but also finish with a 3.57 cumulative GPA in the School of Fashion Styling. She opened indoor competition with the third-fastest 600m mark in program history, going 1:38.63 at the Spokane Invitational then steadily reduced her time in the 800m as well as with her teammates in the 4x400m relay. Andrews wrapped up the indoor campaign with Indoor Nationals provisional qualifications in the distance medley relay as well as the aforementioned 800m (2:11.23, third in ART U history and 28th in NCAA DII) and 4x400m (3:46.84, top 20 in NCAA DII) with the latter two coming successively at the Fasttrack Last Chance Invitational and Last Chance Indoor National Qualifier. She would collect a pair of USTFCCCA Indoor All-Region awards in the 800m and 4x400m respectively.

Regularly in action in both the 800m and 1500m throughout the outdoor season, Andrews had her best in the former, 2:11.41, come in the APU Franson Last Chance to make her an Outdoor Nationals provisional qualifier. Meanwhile in the 1500m, she claimed seventh overall in the PacWest Championships with a season-best 4:39.30 around the track. Coming with her first Academic All-PacWest Team honor last month, this is the first USTFCCCA All-Academic Individual selection for Andrews in her ART U career.

Erine Collard
It was a season of several personal records for Collard who simultaneously offered a 3.30 cumulative GPA in the School of Architecture. The second indoor campaign for the native of Jambes, Belgium included a nearly full-second drop in her 200m time by DII Indoor Track & Field Pre-Nationals as well as a first-place finish for Collard, the anchor, and her 4x400m relay teammates at the same meet.

Over the course of the outdoor season, Collard delivered a new best in the 100m at the Mike Fanelli Track Classic then ran her fastest 400m to date in the event prelims at the PacWest Championships, taking eighth overall the following day. The Architecture major's regular season finished with her contributing to an Outdoor Nationals provisional in the 4x100m relay as she joined Britney Clark, Darria Matthias, and Alicia Thomas in going 46.15 at the APU Franson Last Chance to move into the country's top 32. Picking up an Academic All-PacWest Team selection in June after her work appeared in the Spring Show the month prior, Collard now adds to her resume the first USTFCCCA All-Academic Individual honor of her career.

Makarios Page
Excelling both individually and with his relay teammates, Page offered a memorable 2023 track & field campaign that featured historic achievements alongside his 3.33 cumulative GPA in the School of Music Production & Sound Design for Visual Media. After producing two top-20 national marks in the indoor 4x400m relay, he joined Omodiaogbe Oboh, Robin Black, and Shareez Hamm in going 3:09.76 for the second-fastest time of the regular season at the Last Chance Indoor National Qualifier and, at the time, a new ART U record as well as the sixth-fastest mark in NCAA Division II history. A two-time USTFCCCA All-Region honoree for that achievement and his own indoor 400m best as a Knight at the same meet (47.72, 22nd in NCAA DII), Page became a three-time All-American after he went 3:09.72 with Duncan Agyemang, Ajani Ince, and Hamm at Indoor Nationals for another 4x400m program best and the sixth-fastest time in NCAA DII history.

The success continued for Page in the outdoor season where he was again alongside Black, Hamm, and Agyemang for another eye-popping accomplishment of 3:05.20 across the line at the Mt. SAC Relays. The mark, which displaced a program record that had stood for nearly a decade, again registered as the sixth-fastest time in NCAA DII history and kept the quartet in the nation's top spot by more than three seconds for the season's duration. The Los Angeles native added another individual All-Region honor with his 47.26 in the 400m (32nd in NCAA DII) at the West Coast Last Chance that sits fifth in ART U history. In addition to his third Academic All-PacWest Team selection this year, this is the third USTFCCCA All-Academic Individual honor for Page in his ART U career after he earned the distinction in 2022 and 2021.

Redlinger, Goetschl, Andrews, and Collard were among the more than 400 Division II women to earn the honor while Page was one of the more than 400 men awarded this distinguished USTFCCCA All-Academic honor for their combined academic and athletic accomplishments.