NEW ORLEANS, La. – Augustana raked in both team and individual academic honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), it was announced this week. The Vikings were one of 209 NCAA Division III teams that were named All-Academic Team.
 
In addition, seniors Sofia Wajner (Palmetto Ridge HS, Naples, Fla.) and Jill Humecke (Wheaton North HS, Wheaton, Ill.) were honored individually.
 
In order to win the team honors, head Coach David Thompson's charges put together a cumulative grade point average of 3.48. To be selected the team had to have a cumulative grade point average of at-least 3.10 on a 4.00 scale. The definition of a team member for 2019-20 was any student-athlete who used a season of eligibility.
 
The criteria for earning individual All-Academic required that the student-athlete had to have a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a 4.00 scale and finished the 2020 indoor season among the top 50 individuals nationwide in her respective event.
 
Wajner earned NCAA Division III All-American honors indoors in 2018 as a member of the same 4x400 relay team as Glatz. She is an English major with a 3.75 grade point average. She was also a member of the CoSIDA Academic All-District team this past year.
 
During her career, she has won 14 individual hurdle races in invitationals and she holds the Augustana school record in the 60 hurdles indoors and the 4x400 relay indoors. She also has the second fastest time in school history in the 55 hurdles indoors and the 100 hurdles outdoors as well as the third fastest in the 400 hurdles outdoors and the 10^th best in the open 400 indoors.
 
In the indoor season of 2020, she recorded the fifth fastest time ever for the Vikings in the 200 and she ranks in the top 10 on the all-time school list in four indoor events and two outdoors.
 
She won the CCIW title in the 60 hurdles indoors in 2017 and the 100 hurdles outdoors, also in 2017 and was a member of the league championship 4x400 relay indoors in 2018. Wajner was named the Most Valuable Freshman on both the 2016 cross country team and the 2017 track & field team. Wajner was the winner of the "Coaches Award" after the 2020 indoor season for leadership and contributions to the Augustana program.
 
Humecke was Augustana's lone CCIW champion this year, claiming the mile in 5:08.59, a personal best that ranks fourth in program history. She also won the event at Illinois Wesleyan's Titan Open on February 1 and at Grinnell's Darren Young Classic on February 15. She qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships but the meet was cancelled due to the Coronavirus.
 
An environmental studies and geography major, she sports a 3.74 grade point average. She was named the Jack Swartz Award winner in the CCIW after the winter season.
 
At the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin Indoor Track & Field Championships in 2020, Humecke put together the best effort of her career and won the mile with a time of 5:08.59. That time is the fourth fastest indoors in Augustana women's track & field history. She ended the 2020 indoor season at the NCAA Division III Championships where the meet was cancelled before she had the opportunity to compete. She had the best time on the team this year in the 600, 800 and mile.
 
A team captain in both cross-country and track & field, Jill was the MVP of the cross-country team in the fall where she was named to the all-region team after the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional. She won the Susan Wall "Most Improved" award as a junior and was the "Freshman of the Year" in 2016. Humecke was also the team MVP of the Vikings track & field team this year.
 
She won the senior research award for the geography department and was named to the Dean's List 10 times. In addition, she was academic all-conference 10 times.