MOUNT VERNON – Cornell has placed five basketball student-athletes on the 2024-25 NCAA Division III Academic All-District Teams, selected by the College Sports Communicators.
 
Representing Cornell's women's team are junior guard Tenley Cavanagh (business finance) and sophomore guards Kiley Edris (marketing) and Heidi Jorgensen (pre-physical therapy).
 
On the men's side, senior guards Jayden Meeker (engineering) and Connor Barnett (biochemistry and molecular biology) earned the distinction. Meeker, a first team all-Midwest Conference performer, gained CSC academic all-district honors for the third year in a row.
 
The CSC Academic All-America Teams will be announced April 15-16.
 
To be eligible for academic all-district recognition, the nominee must be at least a sophomore in academic and athletic standing, hold a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.50 and have competed in 90 percent of the institution's contests OR started at least 66 percent of the institution's contests.