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Gymnastics
4/8/2016 12:00 AM | Gymnastics
SAN FRANCISCO -
The Utah gymnastics team has placed a league-leading eight members on the 2016 Pac-12 All-Academic first and second teams, representing a third (eight of 24) of the total awardees. It is the fifth-straight year the Utes have led the conference in All-Academic selections and a total of 37 Utah gymnasts have earned conference academic honors since Utah joined the Pac-12 Conference in 2012.
Utah's 2016 first-team Pac-12 All-Academic selections are seniors Kailah Delaney, Breanna Hughes and Kassandra Lopez, and sophomores Maddy Stover and Kari Lee. Named to the second team were junior Baely Rowe and sophomores Samantha Partyka and Tiffani Lewis.
Delaney, Hughes and Lopez will all finish their careers as three-time Pac-12 All-Academic selections. Delaney and Hughes (the 2016 Pac-12 Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year) are three-time first-team selections. Rowe is a two-time selection, earning honorable mention last year.
To be eligible for consideration for the Pac-12 All-Academic Team, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and have participated in at least 50-percent of competitions in the regular season. Lee, who suffered a season-ending injury in the fourth week of the season, was granted an exception to the 50-percent rule since she was a starting all-arounder in the first three meets.
The conference places 12 gymnasts on both the first and second teams, ranking them by cumulative GPA. Others who meet the qualifications are named as honorable mention.