May 15, 2008

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA . . . The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today its All-Academic Team for the 2008 spring season. One hundred seventy-two student-athletes from the Conference’s six spring sports met the requirements for recognition.

To be eligible for IIAC All-Academic Team honors a student-athlete must compete 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 2008 Spring All-Academic Team is comprised of 55 sophomores, 62 juniors and 55 seniors. Luther College has a Conference-high 43 student-athletes on the Team followed by Wartburg College (33 student-athletes), Cornell College (18 student-athletes) and Simpson College (17 student-athletes).

Ninety-five of the student-athletes honored participated in track and field, including 58 women and 37 men. Twenty-seven baseball players, 26 softball players, 13 men’s golfers and 11 men’s tennis players round out the Team.

Sixty-six (38.6 percent) of the 2008 Spring All-Academic Team earned IIAC All-Academic honors in the fall or winter season. Twenty of Luther’s 43, 11 of Cornell’s 18, nine of Wartburg’s 33, and eight of Simpson’s 17 Spring All-Academic Team members earned similar honors in the fall or winter.

The complete sport-by-sport listing of the 2007-08 Iowa Conference All-Academic Team can be found here.

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