PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State student-athletes Kyler Little and Chandler Teigen have been named to the 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-District 8® Men's Track/Cross Country First Team, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.
 
Little is a junior from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, majoring in Mathematics and has achieved a 4.00 grade point average. Little placed sixth in the 3000m steeplechase at the 2018 Pac-12 Track & Field Championships and has a lifetime-best time in that event of 8 minutes 59.85 seconds.
 
Teigen is a junior from Anatone, Wash., majoring in Biological Systems Engineering and has achieved a 3.96 GPA. During the 2017 cross country season, he earned All-Pac-12 Second Team and All-West Region honors, and led the No. 27 WSU men's team to a 24th-place finish at the NCAA Championships. Teigen was 11th in the 1500m at the 2018 Pac-12 Track & Field Championships and eighth in the NCAA West Region quarterfinals. He will compete in the NCAA Championships 1500m semifinals next week in Eugene. His lifetime-best 1500m time is 3:43.13, run at the Stanford Invitational earlier this year.
 
The 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-District® Teams are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. WSU is a member of District 8 which includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawai'i, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Canada.
 
Little and Teigen are two of the 10 men selected as First team Academic All-District 8 honorees (listed below), all of whom advance to the Google Cloud Academic All-America® Team National ballot, where first, second and third team selections will be announced next month.
 
Google Cloud Academic All-District 8 Men's Cross Country/Track & Field Team
NCAA Division I
Tai Dinger, Stanford, Senior, 3.99 GPA, Molecular & Cell Biology
Nick Heath, Pepperdine, Junior, 3.99 GPA, Business Administration
Jonathan Horvath, UC Davis, Graduate Student, 4.00 GPA, Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior
Gustavs Kehris, Arizona, Junior, 4.00 GPA Physics
Kyler Little, Washington State, Junior, 4.00 GPA, Mathematics
Kevin Maeda, Pepperdine, Senior, 3.92 GPA, Chemistry
Matthew Myrtue, USC, Sophomore, 4.00 GPA, Computer Science / Business Administration
Sam Prakel, Oregon, Senior, 3.89 GPA, Biochemistry
Noah Schutte, Portland, Junior, 3.97 GPA, Business Administration
Chandler Teigen, Washington State, Junior, 3.96 GPA, Biological Systems Engineering