PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State student-athletes Kyler Little and Chandler Teigen have been named to the 2017-18 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Men's Track/Cross Country national teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.

Little, named to the national second team, is a junior from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, majoring in Mathematics. He 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, named to the national third team, 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, eighth in the NCAA West Region quarterfinals and 24th in the NCAA Championships. His lifetime-best 1500m time is 3:43.13, run at the Stanford Invitational earlier this year.

Little and Teigen are the fourth and fifth Cougars male track and field student-athletes to be named to one of the three national academic teams and the 32nd and 33rd time a WSU male student-athlete has been honored.