July 13, 2022 – The Loras College men's track and field team earned its spot among more than 150 Division III institutions on the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Team list in addition to five student-athletes earning All-Academic honors for their excellence on the track and in the classroom.

To qualify for All-Academic honors, student-athletes must carry a 3.30 GPA and have finished top-50 on the national descending order list or competed on one of the nation's top-35 relays. To earn team honors, a program must hold a 3.10 GPA or higher based on all student-athletes on the team.

Recent graduate Matt Bandy '22, seniors Mike Jasa and Carter Oberfoell, and juniors Ted Kruse and Ryan Harvey all earned the honor. Bandy was a national qualifier and All-Conference performer in the high jump and placed third in the event at the indoor conference championship. Jasa and Oberfoell were both All-Americans in the 800-meter run outdoors, making Loras the only program to have two All-Americans in the event, and ran with Kruse on the Duhawks' 4-by-400-meter relay teams that earned All-America honors indoors and outdoors. Oberfoell also ran with Harvey on the Duhawks' All-American distance medley relay team indoors and Jasa joined them on the 4-by-800-meter relay outdoors that set the NCAA Division III record in the event at the Drake Relays with a time of 7:28.23. Harvey was an All-American in the mile run indoors and a national qualifier in the 1,500-meter run outdoors. He, Jasa, Kruse and Oberfoell each earned their second-career All-Academic honors while Bandy collected his first.

The Duhawks were one of five men's teams from the A-R-C to earn All-Academic Team status, posting a 3.11 GPA. The team earned the program's first podium finish indoors since 1989, taking fourth at the national championship, including Ryan Rogers '22 winning the heptathlon national title, and earned six All-America finishes at the outdoor championship in May.