Ohio Northern junior All-American Brock Martin (Attica/Seneca East) was named First Team Academic All-District 7 in football by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
First-team Academic All-District honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot. First- and Second-Team Academic All-America honorees will be announced in early July.
Martin was named Second Team All-America as an all-purpose player in 2019. He has also earned All-Region honors and is a two-time All-Ohio Athletic Conference honoree. Martin has also earned Academic All-OAC honors twice in his career.
Ohio Northern alumnus, 9-time NCAA Champion and 14-time All-American Emily Richards has qualified for the 2021 United States Olympic Trials, which will be held June 18-27 in Eugene, Ore.
Richards ran a 2:02.10 at the Stumptown Twilight Meet on June 3 in Portland, Ore., to qualify. The qualifying mark for this year's trials in the 800 is 2:02.50.
The top three finishers at the Olympic Trials will make the U.S. Olympic team and will compete in the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo July 30-Aug. 8.
A school record 126 Ohio Northern student/athletes were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference in the 23 fall, winter and spring sports for 2020-21.
Five programs had 10 or more student/athletes receive the award, led by football with 15.
Baseball and women's soccer had 12 each, men's track/cross country had 11 and women's track/cross country had 10.
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.
Junior Kristy Catrine (Springboro) was named First Team Academic All-District 7 in women's soccer by the College Sports Information Directors of America for 2020.
Catrine was named the OAC Goalkeeper of the Year, Academic All-OAC and was a Scholar Athlete by the United Soccer Coaches this season.
She allowed only one goal this season and set the ONU school record with a scoreless streak of 1,010 minutes to begin her career.
She had 31 saves, eight shutouts and a school record 0.09 GAA this season, her first as a starter.
The Ohio Northern women tied for second while the Polar Bear men finished third in their respective 2020-21 Ohio Athletic Conference All-Sports Trophy races, the league office announced on Wednesday.
In the women's race, the Polar Bears compiled 63.00 points in 10 sports to tie with John Carroll for second, just 0.75 points behind first place Otterbein with 63.75 points.
Northern won league titles in soccer, golf and softball in the women's competition and had upper-division finishes in nine of the 10 sports.
The Ohio Northern men registered 69.25 points in 11 sports this year.
