GSC Announces Spring Academic Awards

6/21/2022 11:00:00 AM

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Gulf South Conference unveiled its 2022 Spring Academic Awards. One thousand one hundred ninty-eight student-athletes across nine sports earned honor roll recognition, while 92 individuals earned All-Academic team accolades.

HONOR ROLL | ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM

To achieve honor roll status, a student-athlete must have a grade point average of 3.00 or better and have competed in outside competition at the time the award was announced.

The conference also announced its All-Academic teams for the nine Spring sports.

In order to be named to the GSC All-Academic team, nominees must have a cumulative GPA of 3.20 or better their entire academic career at the institution and may not be freshmen or first-term transfer. The student-athlete must also be a significant contributor to the squad. Other factors include leadership, community service and extracurricular activities. Institutions are not allowed to vote for their own student-athletes. The number of student-athletes selected in each sport is determined by the number of positions normally involved in the playing of that sport. Ties are not broken.

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Five institutions had a 100 or more student-athletes named to the honor roll — Montevallo (166), Lee (136), Alabama Huntsville (118), Mississippi College (106) and Shorter (101).
Seventy-seven percent of honor roll names had a 3.3 GPA or better, which included 247 student-athletes that between 3.5-3.69, 366 between 3.7-3.99, and 109 that posted a 4.0.
Baseball had the most student-athletes recognized with 306, followed by softball (195), women’s track& field (132), women’s lacrosse (129), and men’s track & field (127).
Twenty All-Academic team selections returned by 2020-21 ... West Florida's Juan Cabrera earned his fifth selection, while 10 other student-athletes received their third (Darian Blanton, Lee; Cara Brown, UAH; Katie Gerber, UAH; Taylor Greenberg, YHC; Zach Hancock, UAH; Anja Kuys, UM; Irene Recuenco, UWF; Shayna Ryan, Lee; Hugo Stroppiana, DSU, Ronja Taipale, UWF).