sAUSTIN, Texas -- The accolades keep rolling in for Montana Tech's Abby Clark. 

The Orediggers' track & field star collected first-team Academic All-America accolades, Tuesday, College Sports Communicators announced with its full list of 2024-25 women's track & field/cross country honorees. 

Clark, a metallurgical and materials engineering major, graduated in May with a 3.90 grade-point average to go along with one of the most successful athletic careers in Montana Tech history. The Fort Benton native is a five-time NAIA All-American in multi events, thrice in the heptathlon and twice more in the pentathlon. 

This past season, she finished third in the heptathlon at the outdoor national championships and 14th in the high jump. She rounded off a fourth-straight Frontier Conference field athlete of the meet honor after winning the heptathlon, long jump, and high jump at the league championships. That effort propelled Montana Tech to a fourth-consecutive Frontier team title. Her season-best heptathlon score of 4,902 ranked second in the NAIA. 

She served as president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, vice president of Club MET, and an academic tutor in the metallurgical and materials engineering program. Her research, "Identification of Phases of Efficient Direct Reduction of Briquettes from DRI Fine," won the Chancellor's Award for Scientific Insight at this past spring's Techxpo Design Showcase. 

Clark also competes for the Oredigger volleyball team, where she logged 83 kills and 21 blocks in 26 matches. She will return to Montana Tech in the fall as a graduate student to finish out her eligibility in both sports. 

Four other Montana Tech women's track & field/cross country student-athletes — Jenna Jordan, Alyssa Plant, Olleca Severson, and Jadyn Vermillion — joined Clark on the CSC Academic All-District team, announced last month.  

Clark becomes the fifth Montana Tech student-athlete ever to garner Academic All-America honors, joining football's Derek Pearse, Angel Sanchez III, and Matt Whitcomb last fall and women's basketball's Mesa Williams, who was a second-team selection in 2020. 

Student-athletes must hold a 3.5 cumulative grade-point average, sophomore or better standing, and rank in the top 25 of her conference in an event to be eligible. 

College Sports Communicators, formerly known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), is a 4,400-member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. Established in 1952 and selected by CSC membership, the Academic All-America program is the longest-running and premier award for athletic and academic success across championship college sports. 

The NAIA CSC Academic All-America program is partially financially supported through the NAIA governance structure. For more information about CSC's Academic All-District and Academic All-America program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com.

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