Joe Klecker of Colorado was named the Men’s Scholar Athlete of the Year for the 2019 NCAA Division I Cross Country season. Klecker, a senior with a 3.66 GPA in biochemistry, finished runner-up at the 2019 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Indiana, this past November. He is the first athlete from Colorado to earn this award and the fourth Pac-12 athlete to do so in the past five years.