DALLAS — UTSA placed five student-athletes on the Conference USA Track & Field All-Academic Team, as Bashiru Abdullahi, Oreoluwa Adamson, Ingeborg Gruenwald, Jemuel Miller and Mike Roth all were honored by the league office.
Adamson boasts a 3.88 GPA as a psychology major with a minor in intelligence and security studies. A native of London, England, she is a two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete and a three-time C-USA Commissioner's Academic Medal recipient and Honor Roll member. She has been named to the UTSA Dean's List three times and the President's List and Honor Roll once apiece. She recently swept the long and triple jump crowns at the C-USA Outdoor Championships, scoring 20 points to help the Roadrunners finish third in the team race. She earned second-team All-America honors with a 15th-place finish in the long jump at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships after scoring 18 points at the C-USA Indoor, winning the long jump and placing second in the triple jump.
Abdullahi owns a 3.5 GPA while working toward his master's degree in business after graduating with a 3.56 GPA as a multidisciplinary studies major. A two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete, he is a four-time C-USA Honor Roll member and has been named to the UTSA President's List once, Dean's List once and the Honor Roll twice. A native of Benin City, Nigeria, he collected his sixth career C-USA medal after racing to a runner-up finish in the 110-meter hurdles at the outdoor meet last weekend. The UTSA record holder and a second-team All-American outdoors last year, he has won three league gold medals as a Roadrunner.
Gruenwald totes a 3.99 GPA as a global affairs master's student with a minor in psychology after graduating Summa Cum Laude in December 2022. A two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete, the Salzburg, Austria, native is a four-time C-USA Commissioner's Academic Medal recipient and Honor Roll member and she has been named to the UTSA President's List (4.0 GPA) six times and Dean's List (3.74-3.99 GPA) once. A second-team All-American in 2022, she has claimed gold at C-USA meets twice and recently collected her seventh career league medal with a runner-up finish in the long jump at the outdoor championships.
Miller has maintained a 3.71 GPA while studying business management. A USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete as a freshman last year, he is a two-time member of the C-USA Honor Roll and he has been named to the UTSA Dean's List once and Honor Roll twice. The Bridgetown, Barbados, native earned All-America accolades twice in 2022, including finishing fifth at the NCAA Indoor, and has struck gold in the triple jump at three of his first four C-USA meets. The school record holder indoors, he won the league title in the triple jump in February.
Roth owns a 3.66 GPA as a politics and law major, and he has been named to the C-USA Honor Roll and UTSA Honor Roll twice. The St. Thomas, Ontario, native scored 20.5 points at the C-USA Indoor Championships earlier this year, earning High Point Scorer of the Meet honors. He broke the school record in the 400m with a winning performance, finished second in the 200m in 21.09 and anchored the 4x400m relay to gold at the indoor meet and completed the sweep of the 400m crowns at the outdoor championships last weekend.
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