NEW ORLEANS -- The Coppin State men's track and field team has been recognized by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for its academic excellence having been named to the 2009 All-Academic Team.
The Eagles are one of 67 teams honored by the USTFCCCA for having a team grade-point average above 3.000 and were the only team from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference to make the team.
Coppin State had a team GPA of 3.045, which ranked 54th on the list.
DePaul University led all institutions with a 3.419 team cumulative grade-point average, followed by Brown University with a 3.390 team cumulative GPA, and Yale University with a 3.370 team cumulative GPA.
The Ivy League led all conferences again this year with six teams selected as All-Academic Teams for 2009 – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale. The Big 12 Conference followed with five teams selected to the list. The Colonial Athletic Association and the Southern Conference each had four teams selected as All-Academic Track and Field Teams.
2009 USTFCCCA Division I Men's All-Academic Track and Field Teams:
| School | GPA |
| DePaul University | 3.419 |
| Brown University | 3.390 |
| Yale University | 3.370 |
| Butler University | 3.347 |
| Harvard University | 3.294 |
| University of San Francisco | 3.262 |
| Lafayette College | 3.260 |
| Lipscomb University | 3.230 |
| Loyola University Chicago | 3.229 |
| Dartmouth College | 3.220 |
| University of Tulsa | 3.212 |
| Saint Louis University | 3.211 |
| University of Portland | 3.210 |
| Weber State University | 3.210 |
| University of Vermont | 3.208 |
| Stanford University | 3.203 |
| Rice University | 3.190 |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | 3.189 |
| Duke University | 3.184 |
| Samford University | 3.180 |
| University of Richmond | 3.170 |
| Columbia University | 3.165 |
| Drake University | 3.150 |
| Iowa State University | 3.150 |
| Utah State University | 3.141 |
| University of Detroit Mercy | 3.140 |
| Brigham Young University | 3.130 |
| Bucknell University | 3.130 |
| North Dakota State University | 3.130 |
| Kansas State University | 3.125 |
| Rider University | 3.124 |
| University of Missouri, Columbia | 3.123 |
| Georgia State University | 3.120 |
| Montana State University – Bozeman | 3.120 |
| Idaho State University | 3.117 |
| Purdue University | 3.110 |
| Quinnipiac University | 3.110 |
| Sacred Heart University | 3.099 |
| University of North Dakota | 3.098 |
| Wake Forest University | 3.096 |
| Oklahoma State University | 3.094 |
| University of South Carolina, Columbia | 3.090 |
| University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | 3.086 |
| Central Michigan University | 3.081 |
| Wofford College | 3.080 |
| Boise State University | 3.078 |
| University of Nebraska, Lincoln | 3.074 |
| University of Louisville | 3.070 |
| South Dakota State University | 3.063 |
| University of Idaho | 3.060 |
| High Point University | 3.052 |
| College of William and Mary | 3.050 |
| Lehigh University | 3.050 |
| Coppin State University | 3.045 |
| University of Cincinnati | 3.042 |
| Miami University (Ohio) | 3.040 |
| Indiana State University | 3.032 |
| Stony Brook University | 3.030 |
| University of California, Riverside | 3.030 |
| University of North Carolina, Wilmington | 3.020 |
| Northeastern University | 3.012 |
| Cornell University | 3.010 |
| Pennsylvania State University | 3.010 |
| University of Maine, Orono | 3.010 |
| Davidson College | 3.000 |
| Loyola Marymount University | 3.000 |
| Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | 3.000 |
