McGovern Named First Team Academic All-America for Second Time

(AUSTIN, Texas) – For the second straight season, senior Andrew McGovern of the Carnegie Mellon University men's track and field team has been selected to the first team of the 2024 Academic All-America® men's cross country and track and field team as selected by the College Sports Communicators for NCAA Division III.

This prestigious award for McGovern marks the 19th year that a Carnegie Mellon men's cross country or track and field athlete has been recognized as an Academic All-American while he becomes the eighth athlete in program history to garner the honor multiple times.

McGovern graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering while carrying a 3.98 GPA. This year, the senior was recognized as the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Region Men's Track Athlete of the Year following the indoor season in which he ranked sixth nationally in the 800-meter run. He was also named University Athletic Association (UAA) Indoor Most Outstanding Performer in Running Events after he won the UAA title in the 800-meter run and was part of the distance medley relay that also won the UAA title with a UAA record time. This season, McGovern competed at his second NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, placing ninth in the 800-meter run to garner second team All-American status. A season ago, McGovern claimed All-American honors after he placed sixth in the 800-meter run at the indoor championships. He made his third appearance this season at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships where he finished 12th in the 400-meter hurdles to claim second team All-American honors. As a freshman, McGovern placed sixth at the outdoor championships in the 400-meter hurdles to earn his first All-America honor.

Over the course of his career, he is a four-time All-American, six-time UAA Champion and a 16-time all-region honoree while holding four school records and two UAA records.

In addition to earning a degree in mechanical engineering, he earned minors in robotics and business administration. He spent the 2022 summer as a design and engineering intern at General Dynamics Electric Boat. The Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society member was also a 2023 mechanical engineering intern at Locus Robotics in Massachusetts. He currently resides in Mountain View, California, and is working as a Product Application Engineer for Applied Intuition, a company which supplies automotive vehicle manufacturers with mechanical and autonomous driving simulation software.