INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, September 27. YESTERDAY, the NCAA announced the recipients of one of its newest awards called the 1A FAR Academic Excellence Award. The award was established by the 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives to recognize student-athlete academic achievement.<\/p>\n
Recipients must have graduated in the past academic year with at least a 3.80 cumulative grade-point average and have participated in at least two years of intercollegiate athletics at a Football Bowl Subdivision institution in a sport sponsored by a Football Bowl Subdivision conference. Football student-athletes at Football Bowl Subdivision institutions that are independent in football were also eligible for the award.<\/p>\n
Aquatics-related recipients:<\/b>
\nAir Force: Eric Robinson
\nAlabama: Brooke Baldi, Britney Busch, Kate Shannon Gray, Samantha Lugar
\nArizona State: Jordyn Green
\nArkansas: Erin Neumann
\nAuburn: Melissa Marik, Andrew Mitchell
\nBoise State: Amanda Burnett
\nBoston College: Brett Bromann, John Maloy, Megan Tincher
\nCincinnati: Erin Mullins
\nDuke: Alessondra Speidel
\nEastern Michigan: Elisa Torres, Lindsey Kolar
\nGeorgia: Lisa Caprioglio
\nIllinois: Ann Miller, Sara Stoneburg
\nKentucky: Kayla Sergesketter
\nLSU: Laust Helmig
\nMaryland: Mitchel Challacombe, Aleksander Damjanic, Jessalyn Crawford
\nMiami (Ohio): John Eick
\nMichigan: Emily Christy
\nMichigan State: Brian Rockwell, Sarah Mory
\nMinnesota: Kayla Jamison
\nNebraska: Kaitlin Arntz, Sarah Ziegelmann
\nNevada: Margaret Doolittle
\nNew Mexico: Nan Wittenberg
\nNew Mexico State: Tessa Bain, Victoria Eickerman
\nNorth Carolina: Ashley Miller
\nNorth Texas: Mary Beth Geeze, Kelly Gordon, Laura Littleton, Kristen Tuttle
\nOhio: Rachel Heim, Stella Johnson
\nOhio State: Megan Alexander, Morgan Menzie, Courtney Jenkins
\nPittsburgh: Sarah Looney
\nPurdue: Katie Beck, Allie Smith
\nRutgers: Kirsten Fontana
\nSMU: Audra Egenolf, Ana Lara Carrillo, Tim Raschle
\nSouth Carolina: Courtney Forcucci
\nStanford: Kelsey Ditto
\nSyracuse: Jakub Kotynia, Katherine Lewinski
\nTennessee: Jill Pierce, Geoff Sanders
\nTexas: Adrienne Woods
\nTexas A&M: Emily Neal, Sarah Stratton
\nToledo: Megan Friedli
\nUtah: Kristina Evans
\nVirginia Tech: Donald Stewart
\nWest Virginia: George Farquhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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