Eight Polar Bears named Academic All-OAC in Men's Cross Country for 2018

By Tim Glon

| 2018 Fall Academic All-OAC Team (.pdf) |

ADA — Eight Ohio Northern student-athletes were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in men's cross country for 2018.

Juniors Kyle Neff (Sagamore Hills/Walsh Jesuit), Bryan Peck (Westerville/North) and Andrew Shelton (Williamsville, N.Y./South) and sophomores Jack Borden (Westerville/Central), Jackson Brandstaetter (Pickerington/North), Nicholas DeVore (Westerville/Central), Sam Krabacher (Hamilton/Badin) and Travis Sutter (Fort Recovery) all received the honor.

The award winners must be a sophomore or higher in class standing, maintain varsity status and have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.50.

The OAC recognized 324 student-athletes in six sports across the 10 league teams this fall, with Ohio Northern collecting 57 of those awards.

Neff, Peck and Shelton are all making their second appearances on the Academic All-Conference squad after earning the honor as sophomores in 2017.

Neff is majoring in accounting.

This season, he ran a career-best time of 27:59 at the Wilmington Invitational, which ranked him 16th out of 24 on the ONU team.

Peck, an electrical engineering/physics major, ranked 15th on the squad this season with a low time of 27:56 at the All-Ohio Championships.

Shelton, a mechanical engineering major, ran a career-low 27:00 at the All-Ohio Championships this season, making him the 10th-fastest runner on the squad this season.

Borden ran a career-low 28:40 at the Wilmington Invitational this season and is majoring in mechanical engineering.

Brandstaetter ran a career-best 28:46 at the Wilmington Invitational and is majoring in mechanical engineering.

DeVore is a mechanical engineering major and ran a season-low 29:13 at the All-Ohio Championships this season.

Krabacher, a pharmacy major, finished among ONU's top-7 runners in five of the Polar Bears' seven races this season.

He finished 42nd at the OAC Championships and 149th at the NCAA III Great Lakes Regional Championships.

Krabacher ran a career-low 26:48 at the Wilmington Invitational.

Sutter was also an All-Conference honoree, finishing 16th at this season's OAC Championships.

A pharmacy major, Sutter finished among ONU's top-7 runners six times in seven races this seasons, including a career-low 26:22 at the NCAA III Great Lakes Regional Championships.

The Polar Bears finished 97-29 overall, were third at the OAC Championships and finished 10th of 38 at the NCAA III Great Lakes Regional this season under 10th-year head coach Jason Maus.