Salisbury places 167 student-athletes on 2010-11 CAC All-Academic Team

June 30, 2010

York, Pa. - The Capital Athletic Conference announced that a record-breaking 1,023 student-athletes from the nine member institutions competing in 19 championship sports were named to the 2010-11 CAC All-Academic Team. This is the first time in CAC history that more than 1,000 student athletes have garnered this award. Salisbury University had the second highest total of student-athletes as 167 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 41.6 percent (167-of-401) of its student-athletes meet or exceed the 3.2 GPA mark. Salisbury's top teams with the most CAC All-Academic selections include women’s soccer (20 selections), field hockey (17 selections) and men’s soccer (17 selections).

Salisbury, the recipient of the 2010-11 Richard C. Cook All-Sports Award, was honored for a sixth straight year as the top athletic program in the conference. SU shared the Women's Commissioner's award, which recognizes the program that scores the most women’s points, with the University of Mary Washington.

The Sea Gulls won six of the 19 conference championships and were runners-up in four other championships during the season.

St. Mary's (Md.) College led the way with a conference best 50.6 percent of its student-athletes (156 of 308), in the 13 CAC championship sports the Seahawks sponsor, earning a berth on the 2010-11 All-Academic Team.

York (Pa.) College, the only CAC institution to sponsor all 19 championship sports, placed a conference best 173 student-athletes on this year's all-academic team. York was also second in the percentage of student-athletes on the team (45.6 percent).

This is the fifth-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 Mary Washington.

Salisbury also had 42 football student-athletes earn the Atlantic Central Football Conference All-Academic honors earlier this spring to give the Sea Gulls a grand total of 209 student-athletes who earned All-Academic honors this season.

2010-11 CAC All-Academic Team By The Numbers

• Official CAC Press Release (PDF)
• Salisbury's CAC All-Academic Team (PDF)

Ranking by Total Number of Student-Athletes with at least a 3.2 GPA for the 2010-11 Academic Year

Ranking by Percentage of Student-Athletes with at least a 3.2 GPA for the 2010-11 Academic Year