Four members of the Chestnut Hill College Women's Track and Field and Cross Country teams have been named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® Women's Track and field/Cross Country team in an announcement made by the organization and the CSC Academic All-America® committee.

Named to the Academic All-District® team was senior Aubrey Elias; juniors Sydney Watts and Anastasia Watson; and redshirt sophomore Erin McCarthy.  Watts earns CSC Academic All-District® honors for the second consecutive year.

The 2023-24 Academic All-District® Women's Track and Field/Cross Country Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field or court and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes Women's Track and Field/Cross Country honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.

To be eligible for Academic All-District® Track and Field/Cross Country accolades, student-athletes must be at least at sophomore athletically and academically, have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or better and record at least one top 50 individual performance in their respective region in either cross country, indoor track or outdoor track. Eligible nominees will be based off of TFRRS performance list rankings at the time of nomination. Graduate students must have a 3.50 cumulative GPA in both their undergraduate and graduate programs.
 
Academic All-District® honorees are reviewed by a group of Academic All-America® committee members for consideration for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® national ballot, where first, second and third team Academic All-America® honorees are chosen by the CSC Division II membership and the Academic All-America® core committee.  Watts and Watson were advanced to the national ballot.
 
Elias graduated in May with a degree a forensic chemistry. The senior runner was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma, the National Student athlete Honor society and Sigma Zeta, the National Sciences and Mathematics Honor society in 2023.  Elias is also a two-time D2A Athletic Director's Association (D2ADA) Academic Achievement Award winner and a two-time All-CACC Academic team honoree for both cross country and Track and field.  Elias has been named to the CHC Athletic Academic Honor Roll five times and Dean's List four times.

An all-CACC cross country runner with a seventh place finish at last year's championship race, Elias also produced the Griffins best outdoor 800 meter time this past season and competed at 1,500 meters at the CACC Conference championship, placing eighth overall.

Watts was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma in April, and like Elias, was inducted into Sigma Zeta in May of 2023.  The junior health sciences major is a two-time CACC all-Academic Team honoree for both cross country and track and field and was D2ADA Academic Achievement Award winner in 2023.  Watts has earned Dean's List honors three times and was also named to the CHC Athletic Academic honor roll in five of her first six semesters at Chestnut Hill.

The junior mid-distance runner earned All-CACC Track and field accolades for the first time in 2024, placing second in the 5,000 meter run.  She is also a two-time All-CACC honoree for Cross country and placed third overall in last year's championship meet. She holds three school records (indoor- 3000 meters; indoor and outdoor 5,000 meters) and was part of the indoor 4x800 meter relay team that broke the school record in 2023.

A chemistry major, Watson has earned Dean's List and CHC athletic Academic honor Roll accolades multiple times while attending Chestnut Hill.

Watson, the most prolific thrower in program history, took home All-CACC accolades in the discus throw at the CACC championship meet for the second time, placing second overall.  She currently holds the school records for both indoor and outdoor shot put as well as the discus throw.  She was also named the CACC field Athlete Rookie of the Year in 2022.

McCarthy, a junior academically and an exercise science major, has earned Dean's List and CHC Athletic Academic Honor Roll accolades in every semester while attending the college.

The Griffins' top javelin thrower in 2024, McCarthy placed 13^th in the event at the CACC Conference championships and threw a personal best of 28.53 meters in a meet earlier this spring, just .9 meters (2'11") off the school record.

Academic all-America® teams will be announced in early July.