AUSTIN, Texas – UTSA has placed eight student-athletes on the 2024-25 Academic All-District Men's and Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Teams as selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC).
Making repeat appearances for the Roadrunners on the Academic All-District team are seniors Mike Roth and Oreoluwa Adamson, while first-year UTSA honorees are O.J. Ruiz, Garrett Stokes, Ida Breigan, Nyaluet Diew, Edlin Laur and Rachela Pace, each earning their spot on the squad for their combined performances in athletic competition and in the classroom.
Capping off his career this year, Roth earned a 3.50 cumulative GPA in Politics and Law, graduated Cum Laude and is a four-time UTSA Honor Roll awardee and two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete. He was on the CSC Academic All-District team twice previously in 2023-24 and 2022-23, earning honors on the American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team last season (with a second nod on the way), 2023 Conference USA All-Academic Team and appeared twice on the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll. A native of St. Thomas, Ontario, Roth earned silver in the 400-meter at both the 2025 AAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships and made his third appearance at the West Regional in May. He broke his own indoor 400m record with a 46.34 clocking at the Don Kirby Invite in February Roth earned Second Team All-America last season while anchoring the 4x400-meter relay squad that finished 15th at the NCAA Championships, also helping the indoor 4x400m team to a second place AAC finish and a 400m silver medal of his own. Roth anchored the 4x400m quartet to outdoor nationals with a 3:03.72 UTSA record at the NCAA West First Rounds in Fayetteville, Ark. He was the 2023 C-USA Indoor Championships High Point Scorer of the Meet (20.5) after winning the 400m on a then-school record 46.42, anchored the 4x400m to the gold medal and earned silver in the 200m. At the 2023 C-USA Outdoor Championships, he doubled-up with another 400m title and was part of the record-setting 4x200m relay squad at the Texas Relays.
Adamson boasted a 3.81 graduate GPA as a business major, after completing her undergraduate studies with a 3.86 GPA in psychology with a minor in intelligence and security studies, graduating Magna Cum Laude. A native of London, England, she is a two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete, was on last season’s AAC All-Academic team and will earn a spot again this year and is a three-time Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medal recipient and C-USA Honor Roll member. She has been named to the UTSA Dean's List six times and the President's List and Honor Roll once apiece. She helped the UTSA women to a 92.5-point AAC Indoor Championships runner-up finish with dual silver medals in both the long jump and triple jump. She followed up outdoors by helping UTSA to a third-place team finish at 99 points by earning silver in the triple jump and bronze in the long jump. A three-time conference champion in 2023, she earned a spot in the NCAA Outdoor Championships long jump field and earned All-American honorable mention that season. Also in 2023, she garnered Second Team All-America honors with a 15th-place finish in the long jump at the NCAA Indoor. She ranks second in the all-time UTSA indoor long jump performances list at 6.46m (21-2.5) and third in indoor triple jump at 12.80m (42-0).
A junior from Eagle Pass, Texas, Ruiz boasts a 3.97 in cumulative GPA as a Politics and Law major. He is a four-time Honor Roll awardee, was on the AAC All-Academic Team last season, slated to receive AAC honors again and earned the C-USA Commissioner’s Medal and Honor Roll in 2023. Ruiz ranked 27th in the South Central Region in the 3,000m steeplechase this season, finishing 11th in the event at the AAC Outdoor Championships this spring, after helping UTSA’s Distance Medley Relay to a seventh-place 10:07.63 during the AAC Indoor Championships.
A first-year graduate transfer from Incarnate Word, Stokes earned a 4.0 in Information Technology this year at UTSA and is set to graduate in December. He’s on track for an AAC All-Academic team nod and ranked eighth in the South Central Region in the hammer throw with a UTSA-record 62.88m (206-3) measurement to earn the AAC Outdoor silver medal. Ranking 12th in the region in the weight throw, Stokes also earned bronze at the AAC Indoor Championships via a toss of 19.43m (63-9), which ranks fifth on UTSA’s all-time performances list.
The All-American sophomore from Frederikstad, Norway, Breigan holds a 3.78 GPA in cyber security to line up with her exploits in the jump pits for the Roadrunners. She has appeared twice on the Honor Roll, once on Dean’s List and once on President’s List, and was named to the AAC All-Academic Team, is set to repeat the AAC honor and garnered a spot on the USTFCCCA All-Academic. The indoor (6.58m/21-7.25) and Outdoor (6.74m/22-1.5) long jump record-holder at UTSA, she also captured the Norwegian and American Athletic Conference indoor standards. Earning both the AAC’s Indoor and Outdoor Championships Most Outstanding Performance honor in 2025, Breigan swept the indoor and outdoor conference titles this season, following up an indoor crown and outdoor silver as a rookie in 2024. She also anchored the women’s 4x400m relay to indoor and outdoor runner-up finishes, producing the UTSA indoor record (3:36.32) and outdoor No. 2 marks (3:34.77). Her conference performances pushed 18 points in each meet toward UTSA’s second-place indoor and third-place outdoor totals this season. At the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships, Breigan collected her third All-America certificate with second-team recognition for her 10th place jump of 6.35m (20-10). Last season, she swept the AAC’s Freshman of the Year awards, earning Indoor First Team All-America as the first UTSA true freshman to earn that accolade and Outdoor First Team All-America. Last season, Breigan also won UTSA’s Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year and Female Newcomer of the Year awards.
A first-year sophomore transfer from Arkansas State, Diew holds a 3.60 cumulative GPA in economics and earned a spot on the Honor Roll in both of her semesters in San Antonio. She has met the standards for AAC All-Academic as well. Hailing from South Sioux City, Nebraska, Diew ranked sixth in the South Central Region in the indoor shot put and 49th nationally with a school-record 16.16m (53-0.25) measurement that won the AAC Indoor title. She repeated at AAC Outdoors with the sixth-best regional (56th NCAA) mark of 16.30m (53-5.75), which is the second-best outdoor toss in UTSA history. She also tossed the 12th-best weight throw in the region at 17.71m (58-1.25) and was 10th at the AAC Indoor Championships, finishing 10th in the discus at AAC Outdoors on a 42.12m (138-2) measurement.
Seeing great success in her encore season, Tallinn, Estonia sophomore Laur sports 3.68 cumulative GPA in criminology and criminal justice. Laur has appeared once on the President’s List, Dean’s List and Honor Roll, earning USTFCCCA and AAC All-Academic accolades as a rookie, Laur was fifth in the region and 30th nationally in the outdoor high jump at 1.81m (5-11.25), while also ranking 21st in the South Central in the heptathlon at 5,062 points, 23rd in the indoor high jump at 1.72m (5-7.75) and 25th in the pentathlon at 3,580 points. Though it was broken this season, Laur set the UTSA outdoor high jump record at 1.82m (5-11.5) in 2024. She was the 2025 AAC outdoor high jump champion, adding points for the Roadrunners with an eighth-place long jump, after finishing fifth in the high jump at AAC Indoors. As a freshman, she was fourth at the outdoor conference meet in the high jump and seventh indoors. Her heptathlon top score is fifth in UTSA’s all-time book, as is her indoor high jump. Laur has qualified twice for the NCAA West First Round.
Rounding out the eight Roadrunners earning Academic All-District, first year senior transfer from Fresno State, Pace had a phenomenal year in the pits and in the classroom, closing out a 3.86 cumulative GPA while graduating with her degree in multidisciplinary studies at UTSA, she is on track for AAC and USTFCCCA All-Academic honors and was an earned President’s List and Honor Roll recognition in her time at UTSA. Hailing originally from Dingli, Malta, Pace swept the indoor (12.93m/42-5.25) and outdoor (13.41m/44-0) AAC Championships triple jump titles, earning silver in the long jump with a 6.48m (21-3.25) leap at the AAC Outdoor Championships – breaking off huge scores to help UTSA to the second-place indoor and third-place outdoor team finishes. She also finished fourth in the long jump at AAC Indoors. Earning Second Team All-America, Pace finished 16th at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships on a 12.92m (42-4.75) measurement. Already the owner of Fresno State’s indoor and outdoor triple jump records, she secured both standards in UTSA’s record book as well this season, breaking the Maltese Outdoor National Record three times. Pace has appeared in three NCAA regionals and now is a two-time All-American.
Academic All-District honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced on July 15 (women) and July 16 (men).
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