AUSTIN, Texas – Dania Holmberg has done it again. And this time, Scout Cai is joining her.
 
The two Seattle Pacific seniors both have been voted to the CoSIDA Academic All-America team for track and field. Holmberg earned the national recognition for the second straight year, moving up to second team after making the third team last season. Cai made the Academic All-America list for the first time, getting onto the third team.
 
 

Holmberg is a psychology major with a 3.91 grade-point average. She concluded her Falcons career in May by winning the 1500- and 5000-meter titles at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Championships, and was named the Women's Track Athlete of the Meet.
 
Just two weeks after that, Holmberg raced to a ninth-place finish in the 1500 at the NCAA Division II nationals, posting a career-best time of 4 minutes, 25.74 seconds.
 
 

Cai carried a 3.72 GPA as an exercise science major. She won her second straight GNAC outdoor pole vault title, clearing 12 feet, 3½ inches. She went on to place 13^th at the NCAAs.
 
On April 30 at the Buc Scoring Invitational in Spokane, Cai got over a 13-foot bar for the first time in her career – and wound up doing it twice just minutes apart. After clearing 13-2 ½, she came back with a 13-3. Both of those beat the old GNAC record of 13-1¾, which was set in 2017. She was named the GNAC Women's Field Athlete of the Week twice during the season.

Holmberg and Cai were among four Great Northwest Athletic Conference athletes to earn Acdemic All-America. Bethany Danner of Northwest Nazarene, who won the GNAC 10,000-meter title, made the women's third team, and Justin Crosswhite of Western Oregon, who scored in both the 800 and 1500 at GNAC, is on the men's second team.
 
The Academic All-America program is administered by the College Sports Information Directors of America. To be nominated, athletes must have a 3.30 or higher grade-point average, be a sophomore or higher academically, and must be in at least their second year at their school. Those named to the Academic All-District team are then eligible for inclusion on the All-America ballot.