AUSTIN, Texas – Four members of the Washington University in St. Louis women's and men's track and field and cross country teams earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-America honors, the organization announced this week. In total, the Bears have 224 Academic All-Americans in department history. The women's track and field team has 46 while the men have 32.
 
On the women's side, Emma Kelley earned a first-team nod, her second-straight. Ally Sarussi was named to the second team, also for the second year in a row while Yasmin Ruff earned a spot on the third team.
 
For the men, Loucas Xenakis picked up his first-career Academic All-America honor.
 
Kelley is coming off a historic year as she led the Bears to the 2024 Women's Track and Field Outdoor National Championship. Individually, she won the 400m and 800m national titles in the span of a half hour and anchored the 4x400m relay national title. Kelley also won the 800m indoor national title, setting a new all-time Division III record in the process. Following the season, the Bears were named USTFCCCA Program of the Year for the second year in a row and Kelley earned USTFCCCA National Women's Track Athlete of the Year honors.
 
Sarussi claimed All-America status in the outdoor 1,500m, finishing in third place. She also finished 10^th overall in the 800m. Sarussi finished fourth in the 800m at the indoor national championships and earned an All-America nod in the 4x400 relay.
 
Ruff won the outdoor pole vault title in May, clearing a personal-best mark of 4.06m to become the Bears' first outdoor pole vault champion in a decade. She was the national runner-up in the pole vault at the indoor national championships, clearing 3.87m.
 
Xenakis finished 10^th in the decathlon at the outdoor national championships, racking up 6,645 points over the course of the two-day decathlon. At the indoor national championships, Xenakis took 11^th in the heptathlon.