Brush and Wildman Earn Academic Honors From CoSIDA

San Antonio – Trinity University’s Todd Wildman and Zach Brush have been elected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 6 College Division Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country First Team.

The two Tiger student-athletes are now eligible for selection to the national Academic All-America Team, to be announced June 22. Voting is conducted nationwide by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Wildman, from Dallas (Jesuit), is a recent graduate of Trinity who majored in business administration (accounting). He earned a 4.0 grade point average in his first semester as a graduate student. Wildman is a two-time national champion, winning the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Pentathlon Championship in 2009 and 2010. This year, Wildman was awarded a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, and was a 2009 Academic All-America First Team honoree.

Brush, a junior from Edmond, Okla.(Edmond North, is an engineering major with a 3.68 GPA. He is a three-time track and field All-American. Brush placed fourth in last month’s 800-meter final of the NCAA Outdoor Championships, improving his fifth-place finish in 2008. Earlier this year, Brush was a member of Trinity’s distance medley relay team, which finished second at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

The Tiger men’s and women’s teams are led by second-year head coach David Svoboda.