ZIGIC NAMED TO 2018 GOOGLE CLOUD ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION II MEN'S TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY SECOND TEAM

Orangeburg, N.Y. (6/20/18) Dominican's Jovan Zigic (Burnaby, British Columbia) has been named to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division II Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country Second Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) today.

Dominican's Zigic was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division II Men?s Track & Field/Cross Country Second Team
June 20, 2018

Orangeburg, N.Y. (6/20/18) Dominican's Jovan Zigic (Burnaby, British Columbia) has been named to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division II Men's Track & Field/Cross Country Second Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) today.

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This is Zigic's first Alll-America® honors.

The senior was previously named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District® Men's Track/Cross Country Team which qualified him to move on as a candidate for All-America® accolades.  He maintained a grade-point average of 4.00 in Mathematics, while being a member of the cross country and track programs.  This season he won the 1000m run at the DeSchriver Invitational and the 800m run at the Vassar Invite.  Zigic finished 10th at the 2017 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Cross Country Championship to earn All-CACC accolades and was the recipient of the DC Men's Cross Country Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award.

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, along with being named to the CACC All-Academic Teams in both cross country and track and field.

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.