University of Massachusets Athletics
Frimpong-Boateng Is Academic All-District Selection
July 28, 2003 | Men's Track & Field
May 29, 2003
AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts senior sprinter Kwesi Frimpong-Boateng (Accra, Ghana) was one of 10 student-athletes named to the 2003 Verizon Academic District I men's track and field/cross country team announced today and will now be in contention for Academic All-America honors.
Frimpong-Boateng, the 2003 Atlantic 10 Outdoor Men's Track and Field Student-Athlete of the Year, owns a 3.553 cumulative grade point average in microbiology. He was selected as UMass' 2002-03 Male Spring Sports Season Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and has been named to three academic All-Conference honor squads during his Minuteman career in addition to be tabbed as the 2002 A-10 Indoor Men's Track and Field Student-Athlete of the Year. Frimpong-Boateng is a two-time member of the A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll and has been named to the UMass Athletic Director's Honor Roll every semester.
The Most Outstanding Track Performer at the 2003 A-10 Championships, Frimpong-Boateng will run in the 100-meter dash at this weekend's NCAA Eastern Regional at Fairfax, Va. He has won eight consecutive 100-meter races since a sixth-place finish (out of 156 competitors) at North Carolina State's adidas Raleigh Relays, March 29, and owns 100m crowns at the Atlantic 10, New England and IC4A meets this spring, in addition to the A-10 200m dash title.
At the A-10 Championships earlier this month in Richmond, Va., Frimpong-Boateng won both the 100- and 200-meter dashes in UMass and school record times of 10.30 and 20.90, respectively. He is a five-time Atlantic 10 gold medalist and holds three UMass school records.
The only member of the UMass track and field team competing this weekend, Frimpong-Boateng will run in the 100-meter dash preliminaries Friday, May 30, at 4:30 p.m., with the event finals set for Saturday, May 31, at 5 p.m. on the campus of George Mason University. All qualifiers from the Eastern Regional will advance to the NCAA Championships, June 11-14, in Sacramento, Calif.