Thompson Chosen To Academic All-District Team

UW-Oshkosh senior Sydney Thompson was one of 12 student-athletes named to the 2021 College Sports Information Directors of America NCAA Division III Academic All-District® 6 Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Team.

Thompson, a two-year member of the Titans' track & field team, graduated in May with a 3.91 cumulative grade-point average. The finance major transferred to UW-Oshkosh from NCAA Division II Minnesota State University, Mankato following the 2018-19 academic year.

Selected by CoSIDA members, the Academic All-District® 6 Team, recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in athletic competition and in the classroom.

The Academic All-District® 6 Team was comprised of student-athletes from schools in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Academic All-District® honorees advance to the Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in mid-August.

Last May, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association named Thompson its Co-Field Performer of the Meet at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championship.

Thompson threw to victories in both the discus and shot put competitions while finishing ninth at the championship in the hammer throw. She was seeded third in the discus and won the event with a season-best measurement of 153-4. Thompson entered the shot put activity as the top seed and won the event with a season-best distance of 49-11 3/4. She finished ninth in the hammer throw with a measurement of 165-3.

Thompson was also named Field Performer of the Meet at the 2021 WIAC Outdoor Track & Field Championship. She took first place in both the discus and shot put events at the meet while finishing fifth in the hammer throw.

Thompson, a 2017 Mercer High School graduate, was an indoor track & field letterwinner for the Titans in 2020 and 2021 and an outdoor track & field letterwinner in 2021. She was a fifth-place finisher in the shot put at the 2020 WIAC Indoor Track & Field Championship.

Thompson's two seasons at Minnesota State University, Mankato featured third-place finishes in both the discus and shot put events at the 2018 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championship.

Thompson, the 2021 winner of the UW-Oshkosh Phyllis Roney Senior Coaches Award, was a member of the UW-Oshkosh Dean's List four times and the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll twice. She is employed as a para-planner for Mersberger Financial Group, Inc. in Sheboygan Falls.

Other WIAC student-athletes selected to the 2021 NCAA Division III Academic All-District® 6 Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Team were UW-La Crosse's Emma Lawrence and Savannah Rygiewicz, UW-Stevens Point's Larkin Hoepner and UW-Whitewater's Shelby Nickels.

2021 CoSIDA NCAA Division III Academic All-District® Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Teams