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BALTIMORE, MD – Senior Scott Pourshalchi and junior Andrew King of the Johns Hopkins men's track & field and cross country teams were voted to the Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-America All-District II Team for the 2018-19 Cross Country and Track seasons was announced today.
 
This is the first all-district honor for both athletes and they become the 21^st and 22^nd athletes to have earned all-district honors, all coming under head coach Bobby Van Allen. This is also the eighth time that at least two athletes have earned all-district laurels and it is the seventh straight season at least two JHU athletes have earned all-district honors. The pair now move onto the national ballot with the Google Cloud Academic All-America Teams slated to be announced on June 25.
 
The District II region includes Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island and West Virginia. To be nominated for the CoSIDA Academic All-America program, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.30 or higher cumulative grade point average.
 
Pourshalchi was as a member of the cross country team which finished ninth at nationals in 2018 and also played a key role on the team that finished 17^th in 2017. He finished 30^th at regionals and became just the fifth Blue Jays to earn three All-Region honors in their career. The Roslyn, NY native was also named First Team All-Centennial with his seventh-place finish at the conference race. Pourshalchi is a team captain on both the cross country and track teams and sports a 3.77 GPA in mechanical engineering. He is a three-time United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic honoree and is a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma Athlete Honor Society.
 
King was named the Centennial Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year for the fall season as the junior sports a 3.93 GPA with majors in physics and applied math & statistics. He was also a USTFCCCA Academic All-American and earned Mid-East All-Region honors for his 17^th-place finish at the Mid-East Regional race this past fall. King also excels on the track as he currently holds the fourth-fastest time in the steeplechase in program history. The Lutherville, MD native is an athletic department tutor and is a teaching assistant in the Johns Hopkins Department of Physics and Astronomy. He also volunteered at Thread Baltimore where he helped provide support for underperforming students.