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SoCon announces Spring Academic All-Conference team
Annual list includes 640 selections
SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Five hundred and twenty-eight student-athletes earned 640 spots on the Spring 2022 Academic All-Southern Conference Team, the league office announced Tuesday.
Each of the SoCon’s 10 full-time institutions had at least 37 honorees this year, representing the sports of men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, rifle, wrestling, men’s and women’s golf, men’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, men’s and women’s tennis, baseball and softball.
To be eligible for the academic all-conference team, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.3 cumulative grade-point average at the conclusion of the spring semester and were required to compete in at least one-half of their teams’ competitions during the recently concluded campaign. In addition, the student-athletes must have successfully completed at least three semesters at their institutions, making true freshmen and first-year transfers ineligible for inclusion.
A SoCon spring-record 55 student-athletes have maintained perfect 4.0 cumulative GPAs, with Samford leading the way with 23.
The league’s 10 women’s outdoor track and field teams led the way with 81 academic all-conference selections, while the nine women’s indoor track and field programs combined for 72. The six men’s lacrosse teams combined for 69 selections.
Samford led all schools with 86 academic all-conference selections, followed by ETSU with 66 and Western Carolina with 63.
The 640 total spring selections are second only to the 742 from the spring of 2020, when participation requirements were relaxed and some schools instituted measures of academic relief due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With league competition in 2020-21 occurring mostly in the second semester, the league named just one team for that academic year instead of naming fall and spring squads as usual.
Each of the SoCon’s 10 full-time institutions had at least 37 honorees this year, representing the sports of men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, rifle, wrestling, men’s and women’s golf, men’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, men’s and women’s tennis, baseball and softball.
To be eligible for the academic all-conference team, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.3 cumulative grade-point average at the conclusion of the spring semester and were required to compete in at least one-half of their teams’ competitions during the recently concluded campaign. In addition, the student-athletes must have successfully completed at least three semesters at their institutions, making true freshmen and first-year transfers ineligible for inclusion.
A SoCon spring-record 55 student-athletes have maintained perfect 4.0 cumulative GPAs, with Samford leading the way with 23.
The league’s 10 women’s outdoor track and field teams led the way with 81 academic all-conference selections, while the nine women’s indoor track and field programs combined for 72. The six men’s lacrosse teams combined for 69 selections.
Samford led all schools with 86 academic all-conference selections, followed by ETSU with 66 and Western Carolina with 63.
The 640 total spring selections are second only to the 742 from the spring of 2020, when participation requirements were relaxed and some schools instituted measures of academic relief due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With league competition in 2020-21 occurring mostly in the second semester, the league named just one team for that academic year instead of naming fall and spring squads as usual.
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