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Winter Academic All-SoCon Team Announced
To be eligible for the academic all-conference team, student-athletes must carry at least a 3.3 cumulative GPA entering the winter season and were required to compete in at least one-half of their teams’ competitions during the recently concluded winter campaign. In addition, the student-athletes must have successfully completed at least 24 credit hours in the previous two semesters.
All 11 SoCon institutions were represented on the latest edition of the academic all-conference team, which was comprised of student-athletes in the sports of men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, and wrestling. The 160 on the list are tied for third-most on the winter team in league history, trailing only the 177 from last year, when there were 12 teams in the league, and the 191 in 2010-11, the last year before the GPA requirement moved up from 3.2.
Nine student-athletes have maintained perfect 4.0 cumulative grade point averages, including Appalachian State’s Debra Domermuth (women’s indoor track and field); Davidson’s James Durling (men’s indoor track and field); Georgia Southern’s Ashleigh Rasheed (women’s indoor track and field); Chattanooga’s Patrick O’Brien (men’s indoor track and field), Helenka Kis (women’s indoor track and field) and John Lampe (wrestling); and Wofford’s Justin Whitaker (men’s indoor track and field), Katie Kessler (women’s indoor track and field) and Alissa Williams (women’s indoor track and field).
The nine with perfect GPAs are the second-most in league history for the winter season, trailing only last year’s 11.
The league’s 11 women’s indoor track and field programs provided the most academic all-conference members with 79, followed by the nine men’s indoor track and field programs with 38 selections and the 10 women’s basketball programs with 30.
Among member institutions, Appalachian State led all schools with 23 members on the academic all-conference team. Chattanooga was second with 20, while Western Carolina had 19.
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