March 10, 2004

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA . . . The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today its All-Academic Team for the Winter 2003-04 season. Seventy-nine student-athletes from the Conference’s five winter sports met the 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).

The 2003-04 IIAC Winter All-Academic Team is comprised of 27 sophomores, 29 juniors and 23 seniors. Coe College has a Conference-high 18 student-athletes on the Team followed by Buena Vista University with 15 student-athletes and Luther College with 13 student-athletes.

Forty-seven of the student-athletes honored are basketball players, including 23 women and 24 men. Twenty-five swimmers are on the All-Academic Team, including 16 women and 9 men. Seven wrestlers all made the Team.

Four members of the 2003-04 Winter All-Academic Team earned similar honors during the fall season – Buena Vista’s Michael Irvin (football/wrestling), Coe’s Nate Clapham (football/basketball), Cornell’s Melanie Manz (volleyball/basketball) and Dubuque’s Kelly Thompson (cross country/basketball).

The complete sport-by-sport listing of the Iowa Conference Winter 2003-04 All-Academic Team is here.

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