May 15, 2003

MOUNT VERNON, IOWA . . . The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today its All-Academic Team for the spring 2003 season. One hundred ninety-nine student-athletes from the Conference’s six spring 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 2003 IIAC Spring All-Academic Team is comprised of 67 sophomores, 74 juniors and 58 seniors. Luther College has a Conference-high 37 student-athletes earn All-Academic honors. Loras College has 28 student-athletes honored followed by Wartburg College with 27, Buena Vista University with 22 and Coe College with 20.

One hundred-five of the student-athletes honored were track and field athletes, including 78 women and 27 men. Thirty-four of those honored were softball players, 28 were baseball players, 19 were men’s tennis players and 13 were men’s golfers.

Sixty-eight members (34.2 percent) of the 2003 spring All-Academic Team earned similar honors in either the fall or winter season. Sixteen of Luther’s 37 spring All-Academic Team members earned similar honors in the fall or winter. Coe had 10 repeat honorees including Beth Rohlena, the only student-athlete to earn All-Academic honors three times during the 2002-03 academic year. Central had nine repeat honorees followed by Cornell and Loras with seven each.

The complete sport-by-sport listing of the 2003 Iowa Conference All-Academic Team is here.

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