PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Commissioner Mike Aresco has announced the names of more than 2,800 student-athletes who have been selected to the 2018-19 American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team as well as the winners of The American’s Team Academic Excellence Awards.
Nominations for the All-Academic Team are submitted by each of the American Athletic Conference’s member institutions. To be eligible for the honor, a nominee must have competed in an American Athletic Conference-sponsored sport, attained a minimum grade-point average of 3.00 for the preceding academic year, and completed a minimum of two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters of academic work, with a total of 18 semester or 27 quarter credits, not including remedial courses.
The nominations are reviewed and approved by the American Athletic Conference Academic Affairs Committee. There are a conference-record 2,836 honorees for the 2018-19 academic year.
The Team Academic Excellence Award selections are made by the conference’s faculty athletics representatives. The winning teams were chosen based on the 2018-19 grade-point average of each student-athlete who appeared on an institution’s roster as of the last contest of the championship segment in each conference-sponsored sport.
Three teams – ECU baseball, USF softball and UCF volleyball were American Athletic Conference regular-season champions in the 2018-19 season, while Memphis men’s golf and UCF women’s rowing won the conference’s postseason championships.
Cincinnati had five teams earn the honor to lead all institutions, while ECU had four programs honored.
2018-19 American Athletic Conference Team Academic Excellence Awards
| Baseball |
ECU |
| Men’s Basketball |
ECU |
| Women’s Basketball |
SMU |
| Men’s Cross Country |
Temple |
| Women’s Cross Country |
Temple |
| Football |
Cincinnati |
| Men’s Golf |
Memphis |
| Women’s Golf |
ECU |
| Women’s Lacrosse |
Cincinnati |
| Women’s Rowing |
UCF |
| Men’s Soccer |
Memphis |
| Women’s Soccer |
Cincinnati |
| Softball |
USF |
| Men’s Swimming and Diving |
SMU |
| Women’s Swimming and Diving |
Cincinnati |
| Men’s Tennis |
ECU |
| Women’s Tennis |
Cincinnati |
| Men’s Indoor Track and Field |
Tulsa |
| Women’s Indoor Track and Field |
Tulane |
| Men’s Outdoor Track and Field |
Tulsa |
| Women’s Outdoor Track and Field |
Tulane |
| Women’s Volleyball |
UCF |