North Dakota State University distance runner Elliott Stone has been named to the Google Cloud Academic All-America first team in Division I men's track & field and cross country for the second straight year, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Thursday.
 
Stone (Bismarck, N.D./Shiloh Christian HS) owns a 4.0 cumulative GPA with a major in mechanical engineering. He completed his senior season of cross country and his junior seasons of indoor and outdoor track in the 2018-19 academic year.
 
Stone was a first-team All-Summit League performer in cross country in 2018, finishing fourth at the conference meet. He was ranked No. 2 in The Summit League for the outdoor 5000m and indoor 3000m in 2019.
 
Stone, a seven-time Summit League Academic All-League honoree, is a member of the NDSU engineering and computer science team that has competed at NASA's Robotic Mining Competition.
 
This is the third straight year the Bison men's track & field team has had a first-team Academic All-American, with Matti Mortimore claiming the honor in 2017 and Stone in 2018.
 
North Dakota State had four men's athletes named Academic All-America for the 2018-19 school year – Greg Menard (football), Easton Stick (football), Jayse McLean (baseball) and Stone.