Three Prairie Wolves named Academic All-American; Jones Academic All-American of the Year

NWU Athletics
Alex Linden, Sports Information Director

LINCOLN – Nebraska Wesleyan University women’s track and field program continued to add to their impressive season on Tuesday when three Prairie Wolves athletes were named to the Google Cloud/CoSIDA Division III Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country Academic All-American® team.  Senior Elizabeth Jones was named the women’s CoSIDA Academic All-American® team Member of the Year.  Twin sister Kaylee Jones joins her on the 1^st-Team CoSIDA Academic All-American® team while teammate Anna Frazier was voted to the 2^nd-Team.

Nebraska Wesleyan now has 181 CoSIDA Academic All-American® selections to rank 7^th among all institutions in the nation regardless of division.  The Prairie Wolves had two men’s track and field athletes named Academic All-American® today as well.

Elizabeth Jones (Omaha, Neb./Millard North HS) is an exercise science major with a 3.92 GPA.  This is her third CoSIDA Academic All-American® honor and second straight year she was named to the 1^st team.  She becomes the second NWU women’s track and field athlete to earn Academic All-American® of the Year recognition joining Erin Powell in 2006.  Elizabeth is one of three NWU women’s track athletes to become a three-time Academic All-American®.

Jones is a seven-time National Champion in the 4×400 relay.  As a senior she ran the second leg of the 4×400 relays that won the national title at both the indoor and outdoor championships.  She placed 3^rd in the 400 meters at the NCAA III Indoor championships and was 4^th at the NCAA III Outdoor meet.  As a junior, Elizabeth was the national runner-up in the 400 indoors.  She placed 3^rd at the 2018 and 2017 outdoor championships.

A 12-time All-American, she ranks second in NWU history in number of All-American awards.  Jones is an 11-time conference champion, 19-time All-Conference performer and holds five school records.

Kaylee Jones (Omaha, Neb./Millard North HS) has a 3.92 GPA in exercise science.  This is also her third CoSIDA Academic All-American® award and second straight year of being a 1^st-Team selection.  She joins sister Elizabeth as one of three NWU women’s track athletes to earn the award three times.

She ran anchor on the 4×400 relay team that won the national championship at both the indoor and outdoor NCAA III Championships and has been a part of seven straight national championships. Including all four outdoor championships she ran in.

Kaylee was the 2019 NCAA III National Runner-up in the 400 meters at the outdoor championships.  Three other times, she earned All-American honors in the 400 placing 4^th at the 2018 indoor meet, 5^th outdoors as a junior and 6^th at the 2017 outdoor meet.  She is an 11-time NCAA All-American, ranking fifth in school history.

Anna Frazier (Omaha, Neb./Millard North HS) joins her high school teammates on the 2019 CoSIDA Academic All-American® team to earn her first career recognition appearing on the 2^nd-Team.  She has a 3.84 GPA in exercise science.

Frazier was part of two national championship relay teams as a senior running the opening leg of the race.  She now has four national championships in the 4×400 relay, winning the title at both the indoor and outdoor championships the past two seasons.

As a senior, Frazier earned two All-American awards at the outdoor championships running on the first place 4×400 relay and the 7^th place 4×100 relay team.  She ends her career as a six-time NCAA III All-American with four national championships.

This is the fifth straight season that Nebraska Wesleyan women’s track and field/cross country has produced a CoSIDA Academic All-American®.  The program now has a total of 21 Academic All-American® awards won by 12 different athletes.