2020 CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams
INDIANAPOLIS – Continuing an outstanding academic and athletic legacy, Caleb Agee earned College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Track and Field Academic All-District 3 laurels Friday for a second year in a row.
A third-team CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2019, the Floyd, Va. native boasts a 3.96 GPA in biology, the second-best GPA in the district and the eighth-highest tally, six of which are 4.00, of 63 Division II athletes honored by the organization.
Agee earned the South Atlantic Conference's Elite 20 award a year after he took home the SAC's Scholar Athlete in 2019 and was one of the three Carson-Newman track and field athletes to earn Academic All-American honors in 2019.
The SAC Elite 20 is awarded by the league for outstanding work not only in the field of competition, but also in the classroom around the community. It is modeled after the NCAA's Elite 90 award as the league offers the award to the top cumulative GPA on a minimum of 48 credit hours to an individual competing in the league's 20 championships. This season is the fourth year of the honor.
Agee was the first male to win the honor while the program has seen a pair of women earn the honor. Rebekah White won in 2018 and Tori Gaul captured the title in 2017, the first season it was handed out.
He has been on the Carson-Newman Dean's List for three years, is a three-time SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll selection and was a Gold Scholar Eagle for the last three years.
On the track, Agee won the 400 meter hurdles in each of his three campaigns during the SAC Outdoor Championships holding the conference record for the event with a time of 53.78 in 2018. He earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Region nods in each of those three seasons.
During the 2019-20 indoor track season, Agee finished in the top 10 of various events seven times taking home top 10 finishes in all three events, 400, 4x400 and Distance Medley Relay at the 2020 SAC Indoor Track Championships.
Off the playing surface, Agee participated in Operation Inasmuch, "a national nonprofit that employs proven models to motivate, train, and equip churches to move more congregants out of the sanctuary seats and into the streets to serve the neediest in their communities.
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