Three Men Named CoSIDA Academic All-District

(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – Seniors Josh Kalapos (Mt. Lebanon, Pa./Mt.Lebanon) and Liam Walsh (Gaithersburg, Md. / Quince Orchard) along with junior Matt Karee (Elmira, N.Y./Notre Dame) of the Carnegie Mellon University men's track and field and cross country teams have been honored by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) as Men's Cross Country/Track and Field Academic All-District selections. The honors mark repeat appearances for Kalapos and Karee.

All three were selected to the District 4 team, comprised of all the Division III schools in Pennsylvania, and move on to the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration. To be eligible for the award, athletes must be starters or significant reserves in at least their sophomore season and carry a minimum GPA of 3.30.

Kalapos carries a 3.82 GPA in computer science and has been a teaching assistant at Carnegie Mellon for Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming and was a Robotics teaching assistant for the Summer Academy of Mathematics and Sciences. He has previously interned for Google as a Site Reliability Engineer and for Zensors and Zulama.

In competition, Kalapos holds the school indoor record in the 5k that he set at the 2019 University Athletic Association (UAA) Indoor Championships with a time of 14:35.95, which was then the UAA record. That time landed him a selection to the 2019 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships where he placed 19th. Kalapos also had a standout cross country career, earning two all-region honors and running at three NCAA Cross Country Championships.

Walsh, a mechanical engineering and engineering & public policy major, has a 3.72 GPA. He has interned at TRC Engineering and was a research assistant at Carnegie Mellon. He won "Best Overall Project" at the MechE 2019 Fall Design Expo for his scalable item retrieval and storage system. Walsh is also a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council.

Walsh was named an All-American for the 2020 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field season after qualifying for the meet with a personal-best time of 4:14.36 in the mile run. He is a five-time all-region honoree on the track and was part of the UAA Championship 4x800 relay team in 2019. Walsh also earned two all-region honors and ran at three NCAA Cross Country Championships.

Karee, a third team CoSIDA Academic All-American a year ago, maintains a 3.95 GPA in mechanical engineering. This past year, he was a teaching assistant for fundamentals of mechanical engineering. Karee has interned for Valicenti Advisory Services and was a peer tutor for academic development on campus. The junior is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honor society.

Karee is a two-time all-region honoree in cross country and finished fifth this year at the event to lead the Tartans. He has run at two NCAA Cross Country Championships. On the track, Karee recorded a career-best time in the 5k at this past year at the UAA Indoor Championships.