March 12, 2003

MOUNT VERNON, IOWA . . . The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today its All-Academic Team for the winter 2002-03 season. Ninety student-athletes from the Conference’s five winter sports met the set requirements for recognition.

To be eligible for All-Academic Team honors a student-athlete must participate at the varsity level, be at least a sophomore in academic standing and attain a 3.5 or better grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). This marks the first year that sophomores are eligible for Conference All-Academic recognition.

The 2002-03 IIAC Winter All-Academic Team is comprised of 40 sophomores, 24 juniors and 26 seniors. Coe College has a Conference-high 18 student-athletes on the Team followed by Loras College and Luther College with 17 student-athletes each.

Fifty of the student-athletes honored are basketball players including 29 women and 21 men. Twenty six swimmers are on the All-Academic Team including 18 women and eight men. Fourteen wrestlers also made the Team.

Six members of the 2002-03 Winter All-Academic Team earned similar honors during the fall season – Buena Vista’s Michael Irvin (football/wrestling), Central’s Mark Isaacson (football/basketball), Coe’s Sarah Fink (volleyball/swimming) and Beth Rohlena (golf/basketball), and Luther’s Jesse Abing (cross country/swimming) and Ed Mauch (soccer/wrestling).

The complete sport-by-sport listing of the 2002-03 Iowa Conference All-Academic Team is here.

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