Junior John Tumbleston of the men's cross country team was named to the 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III University Division team Friday, June 3. It's the second straight year Tumbleston has been recognized. Details...
Tumbleston, of Boone, N.C., is one of 10 student-athletes from NCAA Division I institutions in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia chosen for the men’s track and field/cross country team. There were 33 athletes nominated for the team by their sports information directors.
This marks the 18th time that an Elon student has earned Academic All-District distinction during the school’s six-year tenure in the University Division. Tumbleston becomes the fifth Phoenix athlete to be named to an Academic All-District team during the 2004-05 academic year.
The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team is part of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America program. Academic All-District III selections will appear on the national ballot for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country Team, which will be announced later this month.
Tumbleston has a 3.99 cumulative grade-point average during his three years as a double major in physics and science education at Elon. The two-time TIAA-CREF Academic All-Southern Conference member has also been inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Delta (International Studies), Pi Gamma Mu (Social Sciences), Chi Alpha Sigma (Athletics) and Phi Eta Sigma national honor societies. He is also a teaching fellow and an honors fellow.
A six-time President’s List and six-time Athletics Director’s Honor Roll student at Elon, Tumbleston was named the 2004-05 A.L. Hook Scholar-Athlete of the Year at Elon’s annual athletics banquet last month. Over the summer, he is conducting research with a physics professor at Wake Forest University. He served the Phoenix as a team co-captain last season and as one of the squad’s representatives on the Student-Athlete Advisory Council the past two years.
Tumbleston competed in six of Elon’s seven 2004 races, emerging as the squad’s top finisher on four occasions including at the Southern Conference Meet and at the NCAA Southeast Regional Meet on his way to earning team MVP honors. He finished 15th out of 75 runners at the Adidas Invitational at N.C. State, 58th out of 175 athletes at the Furman Invitational and 32nd out of 85 competitors at the Southern Conference Meet last fall.