November 19, 2002

MOUNT VERNON, IOWA . . . The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today its All-Academic Team for the Fall 2002 season. Two hundred seventy five student-athletes from the Conference’s eight fall 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 Fall All-Academic Team is comprised of 101 sophomores, 94 juniors and 80 seniors. Luther College has a Conference-high 47 student-athletes on the Team followed by Central College (40 student-athletes), Coe College (33 student-athletes) and Loras College (33 student-athletes).

Eighty six of the student-athletes honored are cross country runners, including 63 women and 23 men. Fifty-three of those honored are soccer players including 28 women and 25 men. Rounding out the All-Academic Team are 58 football players, 39 volleyball players, 21 women tennis players and 18 women golfers.

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

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