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Academic Honors for Buckeye football players
Six Buckeyes Earn Academic Honors
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 The success of the Ohio State Football team has reached far beyond the football field this season. Six Buckeyes have been named to the Academic All-District team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and sponsored by ESPN The Magazine. Four Buckeyes, including center Doug Datish, wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez, linebacker James Laurinaitis and fullback Stan White Jr., were named to the first team and will join the first-team selections from the other seven districts on the ballot for Academic All-America honors, which will be announced Nov. 30. Defensive tackle Joel Penton and wide receiver Brian Robiskie were second-team Academic All-District selections. Datish, Gonzalez, Laurinaitis and White will seek to become Ohio State?s first Academic All-American since Craig Krenzel in 2003 and join a list of 31 former Buckeyes who earned national academic honors. Datish (history) and White (graduate studies) already have earned their undergraduate degrees. Gonzalez (philosophy) joined those two on the Academic All-Big Ten team last fall, while Laurinaitis (business) should receive that honor this season. Ohio State?s six honorees all are starters and have helped the Buckeyes keep their No. 1 national rank all season going into the game Saturday against No. 2 Michigan. Student-athletes must be a starter or significant reserve, be at least a sophomore and carry a minimum 3.2 cumulative grade point average to be nominated for the team by their sports information director, who then joins other SIDs in voting on their respective all-district team. The states of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama comprise District IV. coachtressel.com |
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Congrats guys!! You continue to make us proud off the field.
It is really nice having a center who is on this list. Having an intelligent center is an important piece in having successful o-line play. |
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Big Ten Leads All Conferences With 11 Academic All-Americans in Football Big Ten boasts conference-record eight first-team selections, more than all other Division I-A conferences combined Nov. 30, 2006 Park Ridge, Ill. - The Big Ten topped all conferences with 11 members of the 2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Football Team which was announced today, an increase of three over the conference's eight honorees from last season. The Big Ten's 11 Academic All-Americans included a conference-record eight first-team selections, surpassing the previous high of seven first-team choices established in 1969. In addition, the Big Ten's total of eight first-team honorees surpassed the total of seven first-team picks from all other Division I-A conferences, including two Big East selections and one choice each from the ACC, Big 12, MAC, Pac-10 and SEC. Penn State's Paul Posluszny was named the Academic All-America of the Year, joining Ohio State's Craig Krenzel (2003) and Purdue's Drew Brees (2000) as the third Big Ten player to be honored in the last seven years. Posluszny garners first-team Academic All-America recognition for the second straight season and boasts a 3.56 grade point average in finance. Posluszny was joined by seven other Big Ten student-athletes on the Academic All-America first team, including Indiana's Will Meyers, Iowa's Mike Elgin, Mike Klinkenborg and Adam Shada, Ohio State's Anthony Gonzalez and Stan White and Penn State's Tim Shaw. The conference's three second-team choices are Ohio State's James Laurinaitis, Penn State's Nolan McCready and Wisconsin's Joe Thomas. Meyers, Elgin and Posluszny all earned first-team Academic All-America accolades for the second straight year after being honored in 2005. To be eligible for Academic All-America honors, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00 and have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his current institution. |
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Congratulations to everyone on the list, and to all of the coaches and academic counselors for each sport at tOSU.
For the 5th straight year, tOSU leads the Big Ten in the overall number of All-Academic student-athletes. official.site Quote:
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Excellent job tOSU!
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Is on-field performance an issue when being judged for Academic All-Big Ten and Academic All-American? Or is it just classroom performance?
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EDIT- tOSU has 35 and NU has 19. Last edited by OregonBuckeye; 06-06-2007 at 03:22 PM. |
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