MEMPHIS - The 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-District Men's Track & Field and Cross Country team, as selected by CoSIDA, has been announced. The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), recognizes student-athletes for both their academic and athletic performances. Within NCAA Division III, the Academic All-District teams are divided into eight districts as Sports Information Directors within their respective district vote for the high-caliber award. Rhodes has three of the 10 student-athletes representing NCAA Div. III District Five (AL, AR, FL, GA, MO, MS, NC, PR, SC, TN, VA) earning the honor.

Recent graduates Spencer Fields and Alex McTaggart as well as junior Toler Freyaldenhoven picked up CoSIDA Academic All-District honors this year.

Fields and Freyaldenhoven, both Biochemistry/Molecular Biology majors, were participants of the highest-achieving Lynx squad at the 2019 NCAA Division III Nationals (17th), have earned All-District honors for the second straight year. This is McTaggart's first career CoSIDA All-District honor.

Fields placed 13th at the 2019 NCAA Div. III Track & Field Championships and broke his own 10k Rhodes' record. He earned All-Region honors with the second fastest 10k in the South/Southeast. Fields held the ninth fastest 10k this year in Division III and tallied first team All-SAA honors in cross country and second team honors in track & field. He was also named the 2019 SAA Male Track & Field Athlete of the Year.

Freyaldenhoven, the 2018 SAA Men's Cross Country Runner of the Year, became the program's first All-American in school history after placing eighth at the 2018 NCAA Division III Cross Country Nationals. This year the Conway, Ark. native earned first team All-SAA accolades in both cross country and track & field, placed 37th individually at nationals and fourth at the South/Southeast cross country regional. 

McTaggart, a history major, helped guide the Lynx to back-to-back SAA Men's Track & Field Championships. In the final race of his career at the conference championships, McTaggart ran to a seventh place finish and personal best time in the 1500m run. The Elm Grove, Wis. native was selected as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Lithuania for next year.

To be eligible for nomination to the Google Cloud Academic All-District Team, student-athletes must be at least a sophomore in academic standing with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average and must be a starter or an important reserve.

Each of the three Lynx are now eligible to be selected to the Google Cloud Academic All-America Team, announced June 7.