ZIGIC EARNS GOOGLE CLOUD ACACEMIC ALL-DISTRICT® HONORS

May 29, 2018

ZIGIC EARNS GOOGLE CLOUD ACACEMIC ALL-DISTRICT® HONORS

Orangeburg, N.Y. (5/29/18) Dominican College's Jovan Zigic (Burnaby, British Columbia) has been named to the 2017-2018 Google Cloud Academic All-District® Men's Track/Cross Country Team which is selected by CoSIDA and was released today.

Orangeburg, N.Y. (5/29/18) Dominican College's Jovan Zigic (Burnaby, British Columbia) has been named to the 2017-2018 Google Cloud Academic All-District® Men's Track/Cross Country Team which is selected by CoSIDA and was released today.

The team recoginzes the nation's top student-athetes for their combined performances on teh playing field and in the classroom.

First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the Google Cloud Academic All-America® ballot, with first- and second-team Academic All-America® honorees to be announced in June.

Zigic, a senior, maintained a grade-point average of 4.0 in Mathematics, while being a member of the cross country and track programs. This season he won the 100m run at the DeSchriver Invitational and the 800m run at the Vassar Invite. Off the field, he was named the Dominican College Top Senior Male-Scholar Athlete and was inducted into the Dominican College New York Sigma Chapter of Chi Alpha Sigma.

The Google Cloud Academic All-District® teams include the student-athletes listed here for men's track & field/cross country and women's track & field/cross country, and are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. The Google Cloud Academic All-America® program separately recognizes honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and College Division. The College Division includes all NAIA, Canadian, two-year schools and other affiliations.

The Division II and III Google Cloud Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2017-18 DII and DIII Academic All-America® teams.

For more information about CoSIDA's Google Cloud Academic All-District® and Academic All-America® Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com or the Academic All-America® home page on CoSIDA.com.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement. Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world. Dominican also sponsors 17 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level. To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.