GREENWOOD, Ind. – Four Missouri State track and field student-athletes have been named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team, the organization announced this week.
 
This is the first time Chelsey Brown, Whitney Farrington, Brooke Jenkins and Mia McLain have earned the award.
 
Brown appeared in seven meets for the Bears and recorded a career-high of 3.35-meters in pole vault at the Arkansas Twilight (May 3) and the John Jacobs College Invitational (Apr. 12-13). She is ranked No. 46 in the Midwest and No. 492 nationally by the Track & Field Reporting Results System (TFRRS). Brown maintains a 3.70 GPA with a major in Marketing.
 
Farrington competed in 13 of the Bears' 14 meets on the 2023-24 schedule. She finished sixth in the 400-meter finals at the MVC Indoor Championship with a time of 56.30 then finished fifth in the 400-meter finals at the MVC Outdoor Championship with a time of 55.49. The sophomore is ranked No. 35 in the Midwest and No. 327 nationally. Farrington was named to the All-MVC Scholar Athlete team and has maintained a 3.54 GPA in Kinesiology.
 
Jenkins competed in 10 meets for the Bears and recorded a career-best in triple jump with an attempt of 11.75-meters at the John Jacobs College Invitational (Apr. 11-13). She is ranked No. 48 in the Midwest and No. 415 in the country. Jenkins was also named to the All-MVC Scholar-Athlete Team and maintained an undergraduate GPA of 3.56 with a graduate GPA of 3.77 with a major in Movement and Exercise Science.
 
McLain competed in 12 meets for the Bears. At the MVC Outdoor Championship, she placed eighth in the 3000-meter Steeplechase finals with a time of 11:02.96. The senior is ranked No. 33 in the Midwest and No. 262 nationally. McLain was named to the All-MVC Scholar-Athlete team for track and field and cross country. She maintains a 4.00 GPA with a major in Speech-Language Pathology.
 
To be eligible for CSC Academic All-District awards, athletes must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.00 scale) during their undergraduate and graduate careers, must be a sophomore both academically and athletically and must be ranked in the top-50 in a region in an individual event according to TFRRS.