Hoggard, Jacobus named to academic all-district team

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas juniors Lexi Jacobus and Tori Hoggard have been selected to the 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-District® Women’s Track/Cross Country Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), for their outstanding accomplishments in academics and athletics.

Since joining the Razorbacks in Fall 2015 the Weeks sisters have maintained a remarkable 4.00-grade point average while majoring in chemistry.

The pair not only mirror each other in looks and academics but also match almost identically in athletic prowess.

This past weekend on Saturday, May 26, Jacobus and Hoggard earned their third-consecutive bids to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

ollowing passes of the first-two bars offered, the duo was clean over the final two bars of the day clearing 4.08m (13?-4.50?) and 4.18m (13?-8.50?) at the NCAA West Preliminary Round in Sacramento, Calif.

The sisters were two of 12 athletes to gain entry into the outdoor national meet and two of four to finish the day with zero misses.

Prior to the outdoor season, Jacobus captured her third-career NCAA title at the indoor championships while Tori finished as the national runner-up at the same meet.

With eight athletic All-America honors between them, an Academic All-District nod will give them the chance to add academic All-America accolades to their ever-growing collection of awards.

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