Cotton, Moore named to academic all-district team

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas senior Kenzo Cotton and redshirt-junior Gabe Moore have been selected to the 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-District® Men’s Track/Cross Country Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), for their outstanding accomplishments in academics and athletics.

Cotton, a senior Kinesiology–Exercise Science major, has posted season-bests of 10.12 in the 100-meters, 20.52 in the 200-meters and contributed as the anchor leg on the 4-x-100-meter relay that holds the national lead in 2018 (38.59).

Cotton graduated from Arkansas with his degree in early May and will close out his athletic career at Arkansas at the NCAA Championships next week in Eugene, Ore.

Moore, a Biomedical Engineering major, qualified for the NCAA Championships in the decathlon holding a season-best total of 7,901 from the SEC Championships that is the second-best total in program history.

CoSIDA will announce the 2017-18 Academic All-America teams next month.