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TENNESSEE LANDS SEVEN ON 1A ACADEMIC LIST
Seven former Tennessee
student-athletes who graduated in the past year have been selected
inaugural recipients of the 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives
Academic Excellence Award.
Holly Kane, Jena Murphy
and Phoebe Wright were named from the UT track and field team, joining
soccer’s Molly Delk, softball’s Tiffany Huff and swimming and diving’s
Jill Pierce. Geoff Sanders of swimming and diving was chosen as the
lone Tennessee male athlete.
The award was established by the 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives to recognize student-athlete academic achievement.
Recipients
must have graduated in the past academic year with at least a 3.80
cumulative grade-point average and have participated in at least two
years of intercollegiate athletics at an FBS institution in a sport
sponsored by an FBS conference. Football student-athletes at FBS
institutions that are independent in football were also eligible for
the award.
The award was given to 432
student-athletes: 136 men and 296 women. Twenty-eight percent of
the recipients majored in mathematics, science or engineering; 22
percent in business-related fields; 18 percent in social sciences or
humanities; 12 percent in health-related studies; 7 percent in
education; 6 percent in communications; and the remaining 7 percent in
other fields.
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