Milligan Places 4 on CSC Academic All-America Team

WALESKA, Ga. - Four Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) student-athletes earned a spot on the 2022-23 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Men's Track & Field/Cross Country NAIA Team, the CSC announced on Thursday.

All four honorees are from Milligan. Jake Crow, Aaron Jones, and Will Stockley each made the first team, while Evan Henson landed on the second team.

The NAIA team boasted a 3.84 average GPA with the first team checking in at 3.88.

The NAIA Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NAIA national governance structure to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2022-23 NAIA Academic All-America® program.

Crow graduated as a double major in computer science and information systems with a 3.97 GPA. Crow earned All-America honors with a 38th-place finish at the NAIA Cross Country National Championship in November. He ran No. 5 on Milligan's NAIA national championship-winning cross country team in 2021. Crow also earned individual All-America honors in 2021 when he finished eighth in the indoor 3k. He was a three-time All-AAC cross country runner.

Jones is a history and humanities major with a 3.57 cumulative grade-point average. He was named the Appalachian Athletic Conference's (AAC) John Sullivan Male Student-Athlete of Character, USTFCCCA National Men's Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the AAC Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year in 2022-23. Jones won his first individual national title in March when he took the men's indoor 5k crown with a school record time of 14:26.68. Jones completed an All-America triple crown year in 2022-23 as he finished fourth at the NAIA Cross Country National Championships and placed third in the 10k at the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championship. Jones is a seven-time All-American and has earned All-America honors at each of the last six NAIA track and cross country national championship meet.

Stockley is a 4.0 student who is pursing a Master of Arts in Humanities. He has achieved All-America honors in all six NAIA National Championships he has appeared in the last two seasons. He placed ninth at the NAIA Cross Country National Championship, fourth in the mile at the NAIA Indoor National Championships and sixth in the 5k at the NAIA Outdoor National Championships. Stockley is a two-time AAC cross country runner-up and was honored as the 2022 AAC Indoor Track Athlete of the Year and 2022 AAC Outdoor Newcomer of the Year.

Henson graduated with a degree in information systems with a 3.81 GPA. He was a three-time individual national qualifier with the Buffs and finished ninth in the half marathon at the 2022 NAIA National Championships and was 13th in the marathon in 2021.

For a complete look at the CSC Academic All-America Team, click here.

(Milligan Sports Communications contributed to this story)