Salisbury places 137 student-athletes on 2008-09 CAC All-Academic Team
YORK, Pa. - The Capital Athletic Conference announced that 921 student-athletes from the nine full-member institutions competing in 19 championship sports were named to the 2008-09 All-Academic Team. Salisbury University had the second highest total of student-athletes as 137 Sea Gulls earned recognition this year.
Student-athletes in one or more CAC championship sports that attain a 3.20 grade-point average (GPA) for the academic year earn a berth on the CAC All-Academic Team. Salisbury University had 37.4 percent (137-of-366) of its student-athletes meet or exceed the 3.2 GPA mark. SU had 18 student-athletes with a perfect 4.0 GPA during the 2008-09 school year. Salisbury's top teams with the most CAC All-Academic selections include field hockey, men's track and field and women's soccer with 15 selections each.
Salisbury the recipient of the 2008-09 Richard C. Cook All-Sports Award was honored for a fourth straight year as the top athletic program in the conference. SU also swept the new Men's and Women's Commissioner's awards which recognizes the program that scores the most men's and women's points.
The Sea Gulls won 10 of the 19 conference championships and were runners-up in three other championships during the season.
St. Mary's (Md.) College led the way with a conference best 54.1 percent of its student-athletes (132-of-244), in the 13 CAC championship sports the Seahawks sponsor, earned a berth on the 2008-09 All-Academic Team.
York (Pa.) College, the only CAC institution to sponsor all 19 championship sports, placed a conference best 187 student-athletes on this year's all-academic team. York was also second in the percentage of student-athletes on the team (46.2 percent).
This is the third-straight year the CAC totaled at least 900 student-athletes on the All-Academic Team. Five institutions had at least 100 student-athletes including York, Salisbury, St. Mary's, Stevenson University and University of Mary Washington.
Salisbury also had 32 football student-athletes earn the Atlantic Central Football Conference All-Academic honors earlier this spring to give the Sea Gulls a grand total of 168 student-athletes who earned All-Academic honors this season.
2008-09 CAC All-Academic Team By The Numbers
Ranking by Total Number of Student-Athletes with at least a 3.2 GPA for the 2008-09 Academic Year
| School | Total | ||
| York (Pa.) | 187 | ||
| Salisbury | 137 | ||
| St. Mary's (Md.) | 132 | ||
| Stevenson | 110 | ||
| Mary Washington | 108 | ||
| Marymount (Va.) | 78 | ||
| Gallaudet | 62 | ||
| Hood | 61 | ||
| Wesley | 48 | ||
| Total | 921 |
Ranking by Percentage of Student-Athletes with at least a 3.2 GPA for the 2008-09 Academic Year
| School | Total | ||
| St. Mary's (Md.) | 132 of 244 student-athletes (54.1%) | ||
| York (Pa.) | 187 of 405 student-athletes (46.2%) | ||
| Gallaudet | 62 of 136 student-athletes (45.6%) | ||
| Marymount (Va.) | 76 of 177 student-athletes (42.9%) | ||
| Salisbury | 137 of 366 student-athletes (37.4%) | ||
| Stevenson | 110 of 300 student-athletes (36.7%) | ||
| Hood | 61 of 208 student-athletes (29.3%) | ||
| Mary Washington | 108 of 382 student-athletes (28.3%) | ||
| Wesley | 48 of 185 student-athletes (25.9%) | ||
| Total | 921 of 2,403 athetes (38.3%) |
