Myla Toole Named to 2025-26 Academic All-District® Team

CINCINNATI - Myla Toole was named to the 2025-26 Academic All-District® Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Team selected by College Sports Communicators on Tuesday. She earns the honors for the first time in her career.

Toole was named one of 42 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients on March 12. She is the first Xavier student-athlete to earn the scholarship.

Toole was named a NCAA Division I Women's Cross Country All-Academic Athlete on Feb. 2. In order to qualify for All-Academic distinction, student-athletes must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.25 on a 4.0 scale and finish in the top-25 (or 10 percent) at the NCAA Regional Championships or as an All-American at the NCAA Championships.

The Winchester, Ohio, native placed 15th at the BIG EAST Cross Country Championships on Oct. 31, becoming the first female Musketeer to earn all-conference honors since 2021 (Rachel Butler). Toole led the Musketeers to a fifth-place finish at the BIG EAST Cross Country Championships, matching the team's highest finish at the conference championship since 2019.

Toole finished her cross country career ranked fourth in school history in both the 5K and 6K races. She also finished her track career ranked fourth in school history in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and ninth in the 3,000-meter run (indoor). Toole is also a member of the 4x800 relay team (indoor) that ranks second in school history.

ABOUT CSC

The 2026 Academic All-District® Men's and Women's Track & Field teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the track, in the field, and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes men's track & field honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.

For more information about CSC Academic All-District® and Academic All-America® Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com.

AWARD CRITERIA

Academic standing:

Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically.
Nominee must be enrolled at their institution at the time of nomination as either an undergraduate or graduate student. Only the school at which an athlete competed in the current academic year can nominate that player.
Student-athletes who have graduated from their own institution during the current academic year and are not competing in athletics at another institution at the time of nomination are eligible.
Transfer student-athletes are immediately eligible. If your transfer student-athletes (undergraduates or graduates) are in their first semester at your institution, you must use their cumulative undergraduate GPA and cumulative graduate GPA (if grad GPA is applicable) from their former institution — which meets the 3.50 cumulative GPA — to be considered for Academic All-District/Academic All-America status. This would be the GPA or GPAs they used when gaining admittance to your institution. If your transfer student-athlete has a GPA at your institution, then you take the COMBINED cumulative GPA (from all institutions) and use that in your nomination process. (You cannot just select their GPA at your institution to date.)

Academic eligibility:

An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).
A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established graduate GPA.
The cumulative grade point average may not be rounded up to 3.50.
First-semester transfers: See the information, above, for how to submit their GPA.

Athletic eligibility:

Eligible nominees will be based off TFRRS regional performance rankings at the time of nomination. Note: Only individual ranked performances are to be used for eligibility. If a student-athlete has participated in a RELAY EVENT, that can bolster the nomination but the basic criteria to be met is for INDIVIDUAL performances. Relays cannot be the basis for eligibility.
- NCAA institutions:
  - Cross Country - Top-50 individual performance at the 2024 NCAA regional competition
  - Track - Top-50 regional ranking in single event (indoor or outdoor)

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