Mark McCauley wins All-America honors at NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships

2014 Mar 24

Mark McCauley and his Bates College men's distance medley relay teammates received All-America honors at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships in Lincoln, Neb., on Friday, March 14.

The Bates quartet of junior John Stansel in the 1,200-meter leg, followed by senior Ben Levy in the 400, junior Mark McCauley in the 800 and senior Noah Graboys in the 1,600, finished in sixth place with a time of 9:59.97. Having finished among the top-eight teams at the NCAA Division III Championships, they are the program's second-ever All-America squad in the event, after the 2012 team, which also included both Levy and Graboys. Bates finished ninth in the distance medley relay at NCAAs last year, with a team that included Levy, Graboys and Stansel.

McCauley, who is majoring in environmental studies and politics at Bates, is a 2010 graduate of Greely High School. He is the son of Richard L. McCauley of Cumberland and Mary E. McCauley of Bath.

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized as a leading college of the liberal arts, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. With a commitment to affordability, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin. Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.