Greencastle, Ind.- Sophie Porter (Westfield, Ind./Wesfield), a 2025 DePauw graduate and a member of the women's cross country and track and field teams, has been named to the Academic All-America® Women's Track and Field/Cross Country Team as selected by CSC (College Sports Communicators) for NCAA Division III. Porter was chosen to the second team and is among 46 student-athletes named to one of three teams after earning third team honors last year.

Porter was DePauw's 2025 Amy Hasbrook Award recipient which recognizes the top senior student-athlete competing on a DePauw women's team and is also DePauw's nominee for the North Coast Athletic Conference's Pam Smith Award and the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
 
A neuroscience and biochemistry double major, Porter graduated summa cum laude. She earned second team all-America honors in May after finishing 15th in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In 2024 she doubled up on all-America accolades with an 11th-place showing in the 10,000 meters and a 13th-place finish in the 5,000 meters. Porter also competed in the 2023 and 2024 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships, finish 53rd and 56th, respectively. Her sixth-place finish at the 2024 Division III Cross Country Great Lakes Regional helped the Tigers to the first regional title in program history. She was 12th at the 2023 regional meet.

Porter earned the NCAC's Mid-Distance Athlete of the Year Award for outdoors in 2024 and 2025 and indoors in 2025. She accumulated 13 all-NCAC honors in track and field including 11 individual championships. Porter was a four-time all-NCAC honoree in cross country and finished second at the conference meet in 2024 and fourth in 2023. She graduated as DePauw's program record holder in the indoor 3,000-meter run and three outdoor events (3,000; 5,000; 10,000). Porter helped lead the Tigers to their first NCAC titles in women's cross country, women's indoor track and field and women's outdoor track and field with each coming during the 2024-25 academic year.
 
She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Alpha Sigma and earned the Senior Thesis Seminar Award from the department of psychology and neuroscience. Porter was a research assistant for Dr. Richard Matoglio and Dr. Henning Schneider and presented research at multiple symposiums. Porter also held leadership positions in the Alpha Phi sorority.

Porter is among DePauw's 57 student-athletes to earn Academic All-America® honors since the program's inception in 1952. Including multiple-year winners, DePauw student-athletes have earned the distinction 75 times including a department-best six this year. DePauw men's soccer defender Alec McCarty earned third team honors in December, while Jonathan Bruder and Robby Ballentine were first team choices in football in January. Finley Buelte was a third team choice in men's tennis in June and Becky Williams was named third team at-large last week. The complete list of DePauw's honorees is here.

For more information about CSC's Academic All-America® Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com or collegesportscommunicators.com.