Four Greyhounds Named to College Sports Communicators Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-District
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian University graduate student Christian Jancsarics, senior Josh Mangini and juniors Jake Farrell and Geoffrey Kleinberg have been named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Men’s Track & Field and Cross Country Team for NCAA Division III schools.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian University graduate student Christian Jancsarics, senior Josh Mangini and juniors Jake Farrell and Geoffrey Kleinberg have been named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Men's Track & Field and Cross Country Team for NCAA Division III schools.
To be eligible for CSC Academic All-America® honors, a student-athlete must maintain at least a 3.50 grade-point average, be a sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student and be ranked in the top 50 in the school's region in a track event or have finished in the top 50 at the NCAA Division III cross country regional for the program.
By making the All-District Team, the quartet is now forwarded onto the national ballot to try for CSC Academic All-America® accolades, which will be announced Wednesday, July 10. Moravian has had 56 Greyhounds named CSC Academic All-Americans®.
Jancsarics, who finished his MBA with a 4.00 grade-point average and earned a degree in sport management with a minor in psychology with a 3.55 GPA as an undergraduate at Moravian, was sixth in the NCAA Division III Metro Region in the 3,000-meter steeplechase this spring with a personal best time of 9:45.84 at the Widener University Final Qualifier. In addition to the steeplechase, Jancsarics ran distance races on the track as well as cross country for the Greyhounds. Jancsarics was a member of the Moravian Dean's Honors List four times, Moravian's Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society, an eight-time member of the Landmark Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll and a four-time member of the Landmark Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll.
Mangini, who graduated this spring with a healthcare management degree and a 3.65 grade-point average, was 13th in the Metro Region in the 10,000-meter run outdoors at 23:05.48, 48th in the 5,000-meter outdoors in 15:32.43, 19th in the 5,000-meter run indoors at 15:26.29 and 21st in the Metro Region Cross Country Championships in 25:38.1 to garner All-Region Honors. Mangini earned Landmark All-Conference Second Team Cross Country honors in 2023 after making the First Team in 2022. Mangini has been a member of the Moravian Dean's Honors List six times, Moravian's Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society, a six-time member of the Landmark Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll and three-time member of the Landmark Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll.
Farrell, a sociology/criminal justice major with a political science minor and a 3.52 grade-point average, was 15th in the Metro Region in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:00.37, 45th in the 1,500-meter run outdoors in a time of 4:06.05 and 50th in the mile run indoors in 4:27.85. Farrell has been a member of the Moravian Dean's Honors List four times, Moravian's Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society, a six-time member of the Landmark Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll and two-time member of the Landmark Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll.
Kleinberg, a mathematics and computer science major with a 4.00 grade-point average, was 42nd in the Metro Region this spring in the 800-meter run outdoors in 1:58.09, 11th in the distance medley relay indoors in 10:45.86, 19th in the 4x400-meter relay indoors in 3:37.29 and 44th in the 800-meter run indoors in 2:00.43. Kleinberg has been a member of the Moravian Dean's Honors List six times, Moravian's Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society, a six-time member of the Landmark Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll and two-time member of the Landmark Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll.
To view the entire 2024 Men's Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-District Teams, visit https://academicallamerica.com/documents/2024/6/17//Acad_MTRACK_2024.pdf?id=5490.
