AUSTIN, TX – Recent Johns Hopkins graduate Victoria Kadiri added another prestigious award to her already impressive career list of honors as she has been named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Women's Track & Cross Country Academic All-America First Team it was announced today.
 
The All-America selection is the second for Kadiri, who was also a first team honoree in 2023.  With her selection this year, she becomes the first member of the Johns Hopkins Women's Track & Cross Country program to twice earn First Team CSC Academic All-America honors.  This is the fifth consecutive year that Hopkins has had at least one member of the Women's Track & Cross Country Team earn Academic All-America honors and Kadiri's selection this year marks the 20^th time a member of the program has been selected.
 
A General Engineering and Africana Studies major who graduated with a 3.61 cumulative grade point average, Kadiri finished her career as the most accomplished female athlete in Johns Hopkins history.  She won nine individual NCAA Championships during her career in indoor and outdoor track (five in the long jump and four in the triple jump) and was selected as the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Field Athlete of the Year three times.  Her nine individual NCAA titles are the most in Johns Hopkins history by a female athlete.
 
The national record-holder in the triple jump in both indoor and outdoor track, Kadiri was a 16-time All-American and a 22-time Centennial Conference Champion.  She was also a finalist for the NCAA Division III Honda Award in 2023 and was named Johns Hopkins' Catherine P. Cramer Award recipient as the Department of Athletics' top senior female athlete in May.
 
In addition to her achievements on the track and in the classroom, Kadiri was also active with the Johns Hopkins Tutorial Program at the Henderson Hopkins School, where she tutored fifth and seventh-grade students in math, and also spent six weeks working with the NSBE Summer Engineering Experience for Kids.  There, she served as a mentor and designed engaging content for more than 60 children about the Engineering Design Process and STEM projects.