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97 Florida Tech Panther Student-Athletes Honored With Athletics Directors Association Academic Achievement Award

By  //  August 4, 2023

Men's soccer led the way with 15 athletes receiving the award

The Division 2 Athletics Directors Association announced the 2022-23 recipients of the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Awards. Florida Tech had a total of 97 scholar-athletes receive the award. Men’s soccer led the way, with 15 scholar-athletes receiving the award. (Florida Tech image)

BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – The Division 2 Athletics Directors Association announced the 2022-23 recipients of the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Awards and Florida Tech had a total of 97 scholar-athletes receive the award. Men’s soccer led the way, with 15 scholar-athletes receiving the award.

The Academic Achievement Awards, in its 16th year, is a program that recognizes the academic accomplishments of scholar-athletes at the Division II level.

As a conference, the Sunshine State Conference had 1075 award winners.

In total, there were a record-breaking 19,646 student-athletes from 196 institutions recognized for the 2022-23 Academic Achievement Awards. This is the most student-athletes being recognized since the inception of the awards program.

“This program continues to showcase the amazing student-athletes and the impactful support of their coaches and staff across our Division 2 landscape. I want to congratulate all the recipients for earning the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award,” said Kirby Garry, director of athletics at Cal State Monterey Bay and current D2 ADA President.

“While the number of deserving student-athletes continues to increase annually, the number of institutions recognizing these individuals on campus also continues to trend upwards. We look forward to eclipsing the 200-institution barrier next year.”

Since the inception of the award program in 2007-08, there has been a total of 147,622 student-athlete nominees recognized for their academic achievements at the Division II level.

In order for a scholar-athlete to receive an Academic Achievement Award, the athletics director of the Division II institution must be a current dues-paying member of the D2 ADA.

Also, the scholar-athlete must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale, have attended a minimum of two years (four semesters) of college-level work, have been an active member of an intercollegiate team during his/her last academic year.

The complete list of Florida Tech recipients can be found here.

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