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Eight Named MWC Scholar-Athletes
6/23/2008 12:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
June 23, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY - Mountain West Conference Scholar-Athlete Awards were conferred on 64 University of Utah student-athletes today by the conference office.
The MWC Scholar-Athlete Award is the highest academic honor bestowed by the conference. To be eligible for selection, student-athletes must have completed at least two academic terms, while maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or better, and have participated in varsity competition in an NCAA-sponsored sport.
Andrew Brown, Mason Childs, Marco Ferraro, Tanner Folster, Rick Mason, Adam Oliver, Nick Philpot and Nathan Swallow represent the men's swim team.
Both of Utah's track and field and football teams saw a school-best nine student-athletes recognized. That number is followed by the women's ski team, the women's soccer team and the men's swimming and diving team, each with eight honorees. Women's cross country (six), women's gymnastics (five) and men's skiing (three) followed, and the women's tennis and men's basketball teams each had two make the list. The baseball, women's basketball, men's tennis and volleyball teams all had one singled out.
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