Horizon League Announces Fall 2005 Academic Honor Roll
Jan. 24, 2006
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INDIANAPOLIS -- In recognition of success in the classroom by its participants, the Horizon League honored 514 student-athletes on Tuesday (Jan. 24) as members of the 2005 Fall Academic Honor Roll.
Butler University led the list with 78 student-athletes honored, followed by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with 69. Three schools---the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Wright State University and Youngstown State University---each had 58 representatives, while the University of Detroit Mercy placed 53 student-athletes on the list. Loyola University Chicago added 52 honorees, with Cleveland State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago boasting 44 apiece.
A sport-by-sport breakdown includes 75 student-athletes competing in women's track and field/cross country along with 60 in women's soccer and 53 from women's swimming and diving plus 47 in softball. On the men's side, men's track and field/cross country (52) and men's soccer (36) featured the most honorees, followed by men's swimming and diving (31).
The Academic Honor Roll includes eight competitors who have earned Academic All-America honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in the past 12 months. Butler's Victoria Mitchell was a Second-Team Academic All-America choice in women's track/cross country last spring, with teammate Monica Behney on the Third-Team list.
Youngstown State's Abby Ettenhofer (Second-Team) and Cleveland State's Jenna Maddocks (Third-Team) represented the League on the volleyball Academic All-America rolls, with four men's soccer players drawing recognition from CoSIDA. UW-Green Bay's Adam Ben-Zikri was a Second-Team choice for the second year in a row, joining Butler's Patrick Reilly and UW-Milwaukee's Neil Dombrowski on that group with UWM's Steve Bode on the Third-Team unit.
Candidates for the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll must meet three criteria in order to qualify: 1) participation in at least one of the League's 19 sports during the most recent (or current) season; 2) completion of three semesters (or four quarters, where applicable) as a full-time student at the same member institution; and 3) a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.25 (on a 4.00 scale) as of Dec. 31, 2005.
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Comprised of nine public and private institutions of higher learning, the Horizon League is an NCAA Division I athletics conference that sponsors 19 intercollegiate championship sports and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. The League and its member institutions aspire to teach young people, through athletic competition, the value of learning, service to others and personal responsibility.
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