NEW ORLEANS – The Texas State women's outdoor track and field team along with five student-athletes combined for both the men and women were honored by the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's (USTFCCCA) Academic Awards earlier this week.
 
The women's team earned all-academic status with a 3.01 GPA and is the fifth team overall to receive this accolade since Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Jody Stewart took over the program and second for the women's track and field team (2015).
 
For the individual honors, senior Kylah Smith, an Exercise and Sports Science major and now Texas State graduate was the lone representative on the women's side. The men had four individuals receive the laurel, including seniors Kyle Denomme (Criminal Justice) and T'Mond Johonson (Health and Fitness Management), junior Ben Collerton (Biology) and sophomore Brandon Busby (Business). Johnson has received this honor three consecutive years (2017-19) while Collerton and Smith have each won the award twice (2018-19). Denomme and Busby is awarded for the very first time. Both Denomme and Johnson are now Texas State graduates.
 
Of the five individual award winners, four of them have been crowned Sun Belt Conference Champions and three have won multiple titles, including Johnson, a six-time Sun Belt Champion in the shot put (indoor and outdoor), Collerton, a four-time champion with a pair of back-to-back titles in the men's heptathlon (indoor, 2018-19) and decathlon (outdoor, 2018-19), and Smith who is a two-time champion winning the 60-meter hurdles (indoor) and the 100-meter hurdles (outdoor) both in 2018. Busby went gold in the men's discus throw last season at the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Championships.
 
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