You are an NCAA All-American.
Carl Spackler wrote:
Ask your coach for the final answer. You should get a paper certificate for being All American from USTFCCCA (the coaches association in the NCAA)--unless it's top 6 (and not top 8) for indoor track. Generally the coaches association determines the criteria for All American for each sport and how many for each event or position. In many sports the criteria is more subjective and All American is determined by voting. Second team comes up in other (team-based) sports but not XC, indoor track, and outdoor track.
It's top 8 indoors and outdoors in each event. They added second team to the D2 indoor meet (going to assume outdoors too), which I don't agree with, but I don't make the rules.
It should be like this:
If your race goes prelim -> final, if you make the final, you're an AA.
If your race is just a final, top 8 are AA's.
No need to delineate it more than that.