2020 Spring All-Academic Team Announced with Record Numbers
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CCAA spring-sport student-athletes impressively set a new benchmark with 460 men and women named to the 2020 CCAA Spring All-Academic Team. The new record smashes last year’s previous best of 382, over a 17 percent increase.
The CCAA recognizes individuals academically per season – fall, winter, and spring – for all CCAA sponsored sports. The Spring All-Academic Team consists of eligible student-athletes from men's and women's golf, men's and women's track and field, softball and baseball.
Instituted in 2014, the seasonal academic awards showcase individuals who are a sophomore in athletic standing or higher who maintain at least a 3.3 cumulative grade-point average while competing in a Conference-sponsored sport. These awards are based on complete academic year grades, providing a more robust representation of classroom success throughout the year.
A contingent of 184 student-athletes are making a repeat appearance on the Spring All-Academic Team, with 60 upperclassmen earning distinction in each year of eligibility for the award.
A total of 292 honorees, or 63.6 percent, own a cumulative gpa of 3.5 or above, eclipsing the minimum threshold. A selection of 87 student-athletes meet an even more stringent minimum of 3.8, with five women keeping a perfect transcript in their studies. Cal State East Bay women’s track and field student-athlete Brittney Duquette holds a 4.0 in her pursuit of a graduate degree in teacher education to represent the Pioneers. A quartet from Cal State Monterey Bay holds an unblemished transcript with softball player Madison Neff keeping a 4.0 in her liberal studies classes, marine science majors Brooke Roy and Amalia Seigel joining in the 4.0 club and Ashley O'Toole rounding out the perfect gpa student-athletes as she studies business administration.
By sport, CCAA women’s track and field student-athletes crossed the proverbial finish line in first with 144 honorees. Baseball follows with 106 selections and softball is next as 99 women dot the list. Men’s track and field (71), men’s golf (24) and women’s golf (16) round out the sport-by-sport breakdown. Men’s track and field student-athletes saw the biggest leap, a 69 percent increase from last season’s listing.
UC San Diego caps their time in the conference with a league-leading 49 spring student-athletes making the grade. Also eclipsing the 40-member mark are Cal State Monterey Bay (48), Chico State (41) and Stanislaus State (40), with the pairing of Cal State San Marcos and Humboldt State (39) followed by Cal State East Bay (38) right behind. They are followed by San Francisco State (35), Cal Poly Pomona (34), Cal State San Bernardino (32), with Sonoma State (29), Cal State LA (21) and Cal State Dominguez Hills (15) rounding out the school-by-school tally.
Ten institutions saw gains in 2020, with five schools recording an increase of 40 percent or better. Highlighting these vaults forward are Cal State San Bernardino’s increase of 68.4 percent, Humboldt State’s jump of 72.7 percent, and an impressive 75 percent growth rate for San Francisco State, going from 20 spring honorees a season ago to 35 in this year.
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Winter All-Academic Team was announced with a benchmark of 99 men’s and women’s basketball student-athletes. A record tally of
351 student-athletes were already recognized on the Fall All-Academic Team, honoring those eligible competitors in men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer and volleyball. All told, that brings the total number of seasonal All-Academic Award winners to 910 for the 2019-20 school year.