Six members of the Middlebury women's track and field team earned United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-American First Team honors based on their finishes at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Audrey MacLean (5,000-meter), Emily Rubio (pentathlon), and the distance medley relay (DMR) quartet of Naomi Atwood, Mary Elliot, Elle Thompson and Bea Parr each finished in the top-eight in their respective events to garner first-team distinction. 

HONOREE HIGHLIGHTS

• MacLean (First Team)
  • MacLean earns her second track and field All-American nod and first in indoor.
  • She claimed sixth overall in the 5,000 with a time of 16:58.25.
  • MacLean, who sat 13th after the opening 400, rose to fifth at the 1,400 mark before clocking a 39.45-second split over the final 200.
  • The Panther is now a four-time All-American honoree after earning the distinction twice in cross country, and last spring in the 3,000 steeplechase during the outdoor season.

• Rubio (First Team)
  • Rubio claimed All-American honors for the first time.
  • The Panther bested her placing of 12th in the 2023 championships with a seventh-place finish in the pentathlon.
  • Rubio also rewrote her own school record in the event, scoring 3,603 points.
  • Over the five events, Rubio placed inside the top-eight spots in three, highlighted by a fifth-place effort in the 60 hurdles with a time of 9.07
    

• DMR (First Team)
  • Atwood, Elliot, Thompson and Parr each earn their initial All-American laurel.
  • The squad combined for a time of 11:50.37 to grab eighth and the final first-team distinction.
  • As a program, the Panthers now have 11 DMR teams that have earned All-American honors.

Middlebury has 70 indoor track and field All-American honorees. The six honorees this year are the most for the women's squad in a completed championship since tallying nine in 2016. A complete list of the honorees can be found here.