Academic All-America Team Announcement
 
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University men's track & field standouts Seaton Wozniak, Joshua Gose and Drew Layton were named to the 2024-25 College Sports Communicators Academic All-America team when the men's track & field and cross country honors were announced Wednesday.
 
Wozniak was named as a first team Academic All-American to become a two-time honoree after also being named to third team honors in 2024. Gose was named to the second team and finishes his career as a three-time Academic All-American after being named to the first team in 2024 and the third team in 2023. Layton picks up his first career Academic All-America honor with a third team selection. The Rock trio are part of a very select list that includes just 45 total male cross country and track & field athletes from all Division II institutions.
 
The Academic All-America teams are nominated for and voted on by the athletic communication professionals at each college throughout the nation. In order to be eligible, student-athletes must be at least sophomores in athletic and academic standing, must maintain at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average, must rank in the top 50 in the region in their respective event and should have significant athletic credentials, such as All-Conference or All-Region recognition. Performances from cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field are all considered.
 
All three of the SRU men recognized are field event athletes that competed during both the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons.
 
The three men's track & field selections to the Academic All-America team give The Rock a total of 14 Academic All-Americans in 2024-25, setting a new SRU record for the most honorees in a single year. The 14 selections tops the previous SRU record of 11 Academic All-Americans, which was set in 2021-22 and matched in 2023-24. SRU now has 151 all-time honorees for the Academic All-America program since its inception in 1970, a number that ranks first among all NCAA Division II schools in the Atlantic Region and ranks in the top 10 nationally among all NCAA Division II schools.
 
A brief look at the athletic and academic accomplishments of the three SRU Academic All-America honorees can be found below.
 
SEATON WOZNIAK
Academics: Wozniak owns a perfect 4.0 GPA after completing 91 credit hours in the business management program at SRU. He earned third team Academic All-America honors in 2024 and moved up to the first team in 2025. Wozniak is also a two-time Academic All-District honoree, a two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree, a three-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete and a three-time D2ADA Academic Achievement honoree.
 
Athletics: Wozniak had a breakout 2024-25 campaign, setting a new SRU record in the indoor shot put before earning his first career All-America honor in the outdoor shot put. He broke the SRU indoor record with a career-best throw of 17.58 meters and went on to finish 16th at the National Championships in his debut appearance at nationals. Wozniak followed that up this spring by setting a new career-best mark with a throw of 17.82 meters and earning his first career All-America honor with a 10th place finish in the shot put at the National Championships. He earned All-Region honors in the event during both seasons with the No. 2 mark in the Atlantic Region. He also scored for SRU in the discus at the PSAC outdoor meet. Wozniak is now a four-time All-Region honoree and a three-time All-PSAC honoree in the shot put.
 
JOSHUA GOSE
Academics: Gose has compiled a perfect 4.0 GPA through the entirety of his undergraduate and graduate studies at Slippery Rock. He earned his undergraduate degree in business administration and has maintained the perfect GPA through a full year of graduate work in the MBA program. In total, Gose has completed 148 credit hours with a perfect academic record. He is a three-time Academic All-America honoree, including a first team selection in 2024, and is a three-time Academic All-District honoree. Gose is also a four-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete, a four-time USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree and a four-time D2ADA Academic Achievement honoree. He was honored with the PSAC Champion Scholar Award this spring for the second year in a row for owning the highest GPA of all men competing at the PSAC Outdoor Championships.
 
Athletics: Gose highlighted his final year of eligibility at SRU by winning the shot put individual title at the historic Penn Relays with a mark of 17.46 meters, which ranked No. 24 among all throwers in the nation this spring. He earned All-PSAC honors in the shot put during the winter and spring with third place showings at the conference meets and also earned All-Region honors in both seasons as well. Gose closed his career with an impressive eight All-PSAC and All-Region awards in the shot put, placing in the top three in every PSAC meet he competed in and posting one of the top five throws in the region in every season he competed. He claimed one PSAC individual title and ranked in the top 25 nationally in the shot put indoor and outdoor in each of the last two years. Gose also served as a graduate assistant coach at SRU this year and spent his time running back and forth from his own events to other throws events to help coach his peers. He was an invaluable member of the two-time PSAC Coaching Staff of the Year.
 
DREW LAYTON
Academics: Layton picks up his first Academic All-America in his first opportunity after putting up a 3.63 GPA through his sophomore season majoring in environmental geoscience. He is a two-time USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree, a two-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete and a two-time D2ADA Academic Achievement honoree.
 
Athletics: Layton established himself as the best pole vaulter in PSAC history during his sophomore season, breaking the SRU and all-time conference records during both the indoor and the outdoor seasons and doing it with dramatic performances at the National Championships. He comfortably won PSAC titles during both seasons and tallied the No. 1 mark in the Atlantic Region to become a four-time All-PSAC and four-time All-Region selection. At the indoor national meet, he shattered the PSAC record with a sixth place finish and a mark of 5.24 meters on his way to earning first team All-America honors. He followed that up with a seventh place finish at outdoor nationals with a PSAC record mark of 5.22 meters. Through just two seasons at SRU, Layton is a three-time All-American, a four-time All-Region honoree, a four-time All-PSAC honoree and a two-time PSAC champion in the pole vault.




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