Doan Voted to CSC Academic All-America® Team
For the second year in a row, Liberty’s Calli Doan has earned All-America honors both on and off the track. The women’s steeplechase second team All-American was named to the 2023 CSC Academic All-America® Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country second team on Wednesday.
Doan, who also collected Academic All-America® second team honors in 2022, joins Liberty Athletics Hall of Famer Danielle McNaney (2004 and 2005) as the only Lady Flames ever to garner multiple Academic All-America® notations in women’s track & field/cross country.
A native of Apex, N.C., Doan excelled in the classroom and in competition throughout 2022-23. She maintained a 4.0 GPA as she earned a master’s degree in human performance after previously graduating with a 3.99 GPA during her bachelor’s degree studies in exercise science.
Doan’s biggest honor of the year prior to Wednesday was becoming Liberty’s first-ever ASUN Conference Female Student-Athlete of the Year. She was also named ASUN Scholar-Athlete of the year for women’s cross country and outdoor track & field, while earning ASUN All-Academic Team recognition for all three of her sports (cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field).
She earned a spot on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team for cross country and was included on the CSC Academic All-District® team for the fourth time in her career.
Doan excelled during her final collegiate cross country season, claiming the ASUN individual title (meet-record 5K time of 16:21.0) and earning All-Southeast Region honors (10th place) for the second year in a row. She became the first five-time All-ASUN runner in meet history and lowered the Liberty women’s cross country 5K record to 16:15.1 at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational on Sept. 30.
She was named both Most Valuable Female Performer and Women’s Most Outstanding Track Performer at the ASUN Indoor Track & Field Championships after racking up a meet-high 28 points for the team champion Lady Flames. Doan captured the women’s 3K (Liberty and meet-record 9:24.67) and 5K titles, while finishing second in the mile final. Earlier in the season, she clocked a time of 4:36.52 at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational (Feb. 10), breaking a program record which had stood since 2002.
Doan’s outdoor track & field season saw her contribute 15 points to Liberty’s ASUN team title. She claimed her second career ASUN women’s steeplechase crown and came in fourth in the 1,500. Doan lowered her own program steeplechase standard to 9:57.15 at the Stanford Invitational (March 31) and clocked an ASUN all-time record 15:51.38 5K at the Wake Forest Invitational on April 21.
Liberty’s first-ever women’s steeplechase qualifier to the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Doan placed 11th in the final to become a second team All-American. She clocked a program-record time of 9:52.15 in the semifinals.
