Heath Named Academic All-District for Third Time

MALIBU, California – Nick Heath of the Pepperdine men's cross country and track programs has earned a spot on the CoSIDA/Google Cloud Academic All-District first team for the third consecutive year.

To be nominated, student-athletes must have a minimum 3.3 grade-point average, have at least sophomore academic and athletic standing and compete in at least half of the team's meets. Heath was voted on to the 12-member first team for District 8, which consists of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawai'i, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. He'll now be considered for Academic All-American honors.

Heath (Scotts Valley, Calif./Scotts Valley HS) graduated this spring with a degree in finance and a 3.98 grade-point average. He leaves Pepperdine holding four school records: the 8K and the 10K in cross country and the 3K and the 5K in outdoor track.

Heath also earned West Coast Conference All-Academic first team honors three times. He made the All-WCC honorable mention team in 2017. In fall 2018, he led the Waves' cross country team to its best WCC finish since 2009 and its best-ever NCAA Regional finish. He was Pepperdine's top-finishing runner at 20 of 24 career cross country meets.

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