24 Zips Earn Academic All-MAC Honors for Outdoor Track and Field

24 Zips Earn Academic All-MAC Honors for Outdoor Track and Field

July 01 | Track & Field

2025-26 MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD ACADEMIC ALL-MAC RELEASE

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The University of Akron track and field team earned 24 selections when the Mid-American Conference released its 2026 Men's and Women's Academic All-MAC Outdoor Track and Field Team this week.

In all, 273 student-athletes from 13 conference institutions were honored including redshirt seniors Cassidy Allen (Lakewood, N.Y.), Brook Boes (Tiffin, Ohio) and Ruth Webb (Akron, Ohio), seniors Vanessa Horn (Ludwigsfelde, Germany) and Benjamin Hudak (Tallmadge, Ohio), juniors Majid Abuaun (Rocky River, Ohio), Mason Birch (Strongsville, Ohio), Bram de Raedt (Houthalen-Helchteren, Belgium), Megan Hipple (Warren, Ohio), Ryan Kamperman (Salem, Ohio), Jessica Mason (Holland, Ohio), Braeden Quigley (Avon Lake, Ohio), Rebecca Strunk (Mount Perry, Ohio), Kayla Sucharski (Galena, Ohio) and Christopher Vance (Parma, Ohio) and sophomores Isaac Baltic (Medina, Ohio), Bridget Bergen (Avon, Ohio), Ava Fleetwood (Shawnee, Kan.), Quinn Hopkins (Akron, Ohio), Mariyah Moore (Cleveland, Ohio), Jared Newenhisen (Barberton, Ohio), Kaden Rambatt (Sharon, Wis.), Isabella Swallow (Westerville, Ohio) and Shania Thomas (Bridgetown, Barbados).

The Academic All-MAC honor is for a student-athlete who has excelled in athletics and academics. To qualify, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and have participated in at least 50 percent of the contests for that particular sport and have been at residence at their school for one year. True freshman and first-year transfer student-athletes are not eligible.

2026 AKRON OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD ACADEMIC ALL-MAC SELECTIONS
Majid Abuaun, Jr., Mechanical Engineering, 3.959
Cassidy Allen, Sr. (R), Biomedical Engineering, 3.61
Isaac Baltic, So., Aerospace Systems Engineering, 3.344
Bridget Bergen, So. Accounting, 3.964
Mason Birch, Jr., Financial Management, 3.428
Brook Boes, Sr. (R), Exercise Physiology, 3.477
Bram de Raedt, Jr., International Business, 3.93
Ava Fleetwood, So., Financial Management, 3.726
Megan Hipple, Jr., Food and Nutrition Sciences, 3.588
Quinn Hopkins, So., Biomedical Science, 3.278
Vanessa Horn, Sr., Psychology, 4.00
Benjamin Hudak, Sr., Chemistry, 3.867
Ryan Kamperman, Jr., Automated Manufacturing Engineering Technology, 3.275
Jessica Mason, Jr., Biomedical Science, 4.00
Mariyah Moore, So., Nursing, 3.446
Jared Newenhisen, So., Aerospace Systems Engineering, 3.355
Braeden Quigley, Jr., Business Data Analytics, 3.414
Kaden Rambatt, So., Mechanical Engineering, 3.686
Rebecca Strunk, Jr., Exercise Science, 3.683
Kayla Sucharski, Jr., Biology, 3.801
Isabella Swallow, So., Psychology, 3.278
Shania Thomas, So., Mechanical Engineering, 3.759
Christopher Vance, Jr., Accounting, 3.959
Ruth Webb, Sr. (R), Exercise Science, 3.478