WACO, Texas – Baylor track and field seniors
Ben Conacher and
Ryan Day were named to the 2022-23 Academic All-America men's track and field/cross country second-team, as released Thursday by the College Sports Communicators.
The pair are only the third and fourth Baylor men's track and field/cross country student-athletes that have earned a place on the CSC Academic All-America teams, and the first since the 2013 season when Blake Niccum earned second-team honors and Taylor Jackson followed on the third team.
In total, Conacher and Day are only the 13
th and 14
th all-time Academic All-America team members coming from the Baylor track and field or cross country teams.
Conacher, a native of Katy, Texas, ended his BU career in the classroom with a perfect 4.0 GPA en route to a biochemistry degree.
On the track, Conacher ended his time in stellar fashion with a personal best to advance to the NCAA Outdoor National Championships, followed by another personal best that landed him on the NCAA All-America podium in a tie for eighth.
Conacher is soon beginning a PhD in genetics, bioinformatics and computational biology at Virginia Tech.
Day excelled to a 3.97 undergraduate GPA in mechanical engineering and recently graduated with his master's degree in the same subject.
A Waco native, Day was one of Baylor's top-25 finishers at the NCAA South Central Regional in Bryan-College Station, Texas, and was joined by sophomore
Drew Snyder as all-region runners. It was the first time in over a decade that Baylor placed two competitors on the regional podium.
In the track season, Day closed out his collegiate career with all-conference honors in the indoor distance medley and outdoor 5,000 meters, where he holds the program record.
For more information regarding the Academic All-America program, visit
www.academicallamerica.com.
To stay up to date throughout the year on all things Baylor track and field, follow the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @BaylorTrack.
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2022-23 Academic All-America ®
Men's Track & Field / Cross Country
NCAA Division I
FIRST TEAM
Name
John Bennett, Cal Poly
Zach Bradford, Texas Tech
Tom Brady, University of Michigan
Hunter Garretson, University of Akron
Jordan Geist (1), University of Arizona
Luke Houser, University of Washington
Dylan Jacobs, University of Tennessee
Max McKhann, Stanford University
Trevor Otterdahl (1, 4), North Dakota State University
Owayne Owens (1, 5), University of Virginia
Ky Robinson, Stanford University
Isaiah Schafer, University of Minnesota
Joshua Sobota (2, 5), University of Kentucky
Till Steinforth, University of Nebraska
Turner Washington (1, 4), Arizona State
Cole Whatley, California
Matthew Wilkinson, University of Minnesota
Caleb Witsken, BYU
Kevin Yang, Stanford University
SECOND TEAM
Ethan Bersley, California
Jonathan Boyd (3, 6), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Brett Brady (3), U.S. Naval Academy
Ben Conacher, Baylor University
Ryan Day, Baylor University
Jeremy Farr, University of Arkansas
Eerik Haamer, University of South Dakota
Abdullahi Hassan, University of Wisconsin
Derek Johnson, University of Virginia
Alex Maier, Oklahoma State University
Udodi Onwuzurike, Stanford University
Kenneth Rooks, BYU
Gable Sieperda, Iowa State University
THIRD TEAM
Graham Blanks, Harvard University
Daniel Burkhalter, South Dakota State University
Collin Burkhart, Penn State
Nolan Chiles, Fordham University
Casey Clinger, BYU
Sam Coil, University of Wisconsin
Peyton Davis, University of Tennessee
Carrick Denker, California
Delan Edwin, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Corbett Fong, Rice University
Michael Gupta, California
Fouad Messaoudi, Oklahoma State University
Quinton Orr, Iowa State University
Jonathan Pelusi, California
Benji Phillips, North Dakota State University
Jacob Rodin, North Dakota State University
Kaleb Siekmeier (2, 6), University of Minnesota
Boston Small, Creighton
Emil Uhlin, Kansas State University
(1) - 1st team Academic All-America in 2021-22
(2) - 2nd team Academic All-America in 2021-22
(3) - 3rd team Academic All-America in 2021-22
(4) - 1st team Academic All-America in 2020-21
(5) - 2nd team Academic All-America in 2020-21
(6) - 3rd team Academic All-America in 2020-21
