156 St. Mary's Student-Athletes Honored as CAC All-Academic Team Members
Complete 2010-11 CAC All-Academic Team
List of St. Mary's Student-Athletes Only
York, Pa. – St. Mary’s College of Maryland led the Capital Athletic Conference for the fourth consecutive year with 50.6 percent of its student-athletes earning a berth on the 2010-11 CAC All-Academic Team as announced by CAC commissioner, Tom Byrnes, Thursday afternoon. Student-athletes in one or more CAC championship sports that attain a 3.20 grade point average for the academic year are rewarded with a spot on the CAC All-Academic Team.
More than a 1,000 student-athletes representing nine member institutions and 19 championship sports were named to this year’s All-Academic Team. It is the fifth straight year the league has tallied at least 900 student-athletes on the All-Academic Team and the first time totaling at least 1,000 members. Five schools totaled at least 100 student-athletes on the All-Academic Team – the highest total in CAC history.
St. Mary’s finished third with a 156 total student-athletes
in 15 sponsored championship sports on this year’s
All-Academic Team – an increase of nine from last
year’s squad. Over the past two years, SMCM has added
24 student-athletes to the All-Academic Team, going from 132 in
2008-09 to 156 this year.
Eleven Seahawk student-athletes finished their career as four-year members of the CAC All-Academic Team while seven student-athletes posted a 4.0 GPA for the 2010-11 academic year. Men’s basketball players, Sam Burum (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman), the 2010-11 CAC Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and Kyle Jarczynski (Bel Air, Md./Calvert Hall), were both four-year All-Academic Team selections and posted a 4.0 GPA this year.
Ranking by Percentage of Student-Athletes with at least
a 3.2 GPA
St. Mary’s
(Md.)......................................................................................
50.6%
York
(Pa.)....................................................................................................
45.6%
Salisbury.....................................................................................................
41.6%
Stevenson..................................................................................................
37.5%
Hood...........................................................................................................
33.1%
Wesley........................................................................................................
30.7%
Mary
Washington........................................................................................
29.8%
Marymount
(Va.).........................................................................................
29.7%
Frostburg
State..........................................................................................
28.8%
Ranking by Total Number of Student-Athletes with at
least a 3.2 GPA
York
(Pa.).................................................. 173
Salisbury...................................................
167
St. Mary’s
(Md.)..................................... 156
Stevenson................................................
117
Mary Washington...................................... 105
Frostburg State........................................... 95
Hood...........................................................
82
Wesley........................................................
75
Marymount (Va.)......................................... 50
Total.....................................................
1,020
