University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Trio Earns CSC Academic All-District® Honors
06.26.2025 | Track and Field
GREENWOOD, Ind. – Jan Málek, Nkosi Jeju, and Madison Hannah of the UNC Asheville Track and Field team have been named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District team. The announcement was made on Tuesday (June 24).
To be eligible for the award, student-athletes had to obtain a top-50 regional track and field performance or top-25 regional cross country finish and maintain at least a 3.5 GPA in the classroom.
Jan Málek - Malek represented Asheville on the Big South Outdoor Track & Field All-Academic Team and ran for gold at the Big South Conference Championships, as he won the men's 3,000m steeplechase. At the Raleigh Relays, Malek finished the steeplechase in a school record time of 8:58.03. His time put him at No. 17 in the Southeast region.
Nkosi Jeju - In his first year at Asheville, Jeju made an immediate impact by breaking the indoor school record in the long jump with a distance of 7.34m. In outdoor season, Jeju set the school record for the long jump at 7.35m. He earned silver for his long jump performance at the outdoor championships and helped the 4x100 relay team to silver as well. Jeju's indoor long jump distance put him at No. 8 in the Southeast region and his outdoor long jump performance put him at No. 22 in the region. His 4x100 relay team is No. 10 in the southeast, and he is No. 49 in the triple jump.
Madison Hannah - Hannah represented Asheville on the Big South Outdoor Track & Field All-Academic Team and set five PRs between indoor and outdoor seasons. Her best performance of the year was at the Catamount Classic, where she threw a PR of 44m in the discus to put her at No. 35 in the Southeast Region. Hannah is currently No. 3 in the program's top performance list in the discus and No. 4 in the hammer (42.37m).
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