AUSTIN, Texas  College Sports Communicators (CSC, formerly CoSIDA) on Wednesday released its 2022-23 Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-America Team, an exclusive list that includes Western Colorado University's Katie Doucette as a second-team NCAA Division II honoree and Kaiya Firor as a third-team selection.

A five-time Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference All-Academic Team selection, Doucette earns her first CSC national academic honor with Wednesday's announcement. Her career academic honors also include six RMAC All-Academic Honor Rolls.

Western's female 2023 Paul Wright Award selection—presented annually to the top female and male senior athletes of the year—Doucette raced to 13 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) all-region honors, and would go on to earn nine NCAA D-II All-American awards.

She is a two-time cross country All-American (2021-2022); a four-time indoor track & field All-American (2020, two times in 2022, and in 2023); an outdoor track & field All-American in 2022 and in two events at the 2023 D-II national championship meet. Her highest individual finish at track nationals was a runner-up placing in the indoor 3,000-meter run in 2022, followed by fourth-place finishes in the 5,000 (indoor 2022) and 10,000 (outdoor 2023, where she again doubled and finished fifth in the 5,000).

The school record holder in the indoor 5,000 (16 minutes, 8.73 seconds), Doucette also posts times on Mountaineer all-time top-10 lists in the indoor 3,000 (second), outdoor 10,000 (third) and 5,000 (seventh).

Firor also earns her first CSC national academic honor with Wednesday's announcement. She adds to career academic honors that include four first-team RMAC All-Academic Team selections—2021 and 2023 for outdoor track & field, and 2022 and 2023 for indoor track & field—and academic honor roll spots on the 2022 outdoor list and the 2021 indoor list.

She is a three-time All-American after finishing fourth in the 400m hurdles with a school record time of 58.97 seconds at the 2023 outdoor national meet, third with the distance medley relay at the 2023 indoor championship, and fifth at 2021 outdoor nationals with a 4x400 relay school record that still stands (3:44.56).

Her name litters the Mountaineer top-10 lists with school-record times in the indoor 200 and 400, the outdoor 400 hurdles and 4x400 relay; a third-fastest time in the outdoor 200 and fifth fastest in the outdoor 400; and the eighth fastest time in the indoor 60.

Along with Firor's individual marks in the all-time Western top 10, she was also a member of six other outdoor relay foursomes in the rankings as well as seven relay quartets within the top 10 of the indoor marks.