Big East All Academic Team

I do care about the academic part of college and college athletics. I do think that student athletes deserve some credit for being named to the Big East All-Academic Team.

UConn compiled their list recently and released it.

I actually compiled the list at work for my school's conference honor roll.

I can't list all 200 people, but I will list my friends, acquaintances and people that know of me well enough to at least say hello or acknowledge my presence when we pass each other by. They should be rewarded with some SMALL sort of publicity for their achievements, even though most of them probably don't read this.

Meghan Nanfeldt, Willis Reed...(aka Kristen Beasley), plus Nanfeldt and Beasley are Sports Management majors which makes them even better in my eyes.

Dan Holst, Jamaal Smith, Shauna Musser (who has a good politics blog of her own), Lauren Lamberti, Mandy Schwartz, Brianna Gray, Steph Labbe, Katy Ryan, Molly McGroarty, BreAnn Cheung, Bill Magin.

Doug Elliot also found my student ID and helped out at Husky Sport so he should also get in this.

I will mention Maya Moore and Tahirah Williams too because I interviewed them several times and both are really nice and have said hello to me on campus once or twice before.

Women's Rowing had the most people represented with 24. Women's Soccer and women's track and field also had 20 or more athletes represented.

If you're noticing a theme you would be correct. More female athletes are on this team than male athletes. That was common when I compiled the list at my school too. There are plenty of theories as to why this occurs.

If your wondering why there aren't any ice hockey players listed it's because the Big East Conference doesn't offer ice hockey as a sport, therefore no ice hockey student athletes qualify for the Big East All-Academic Team.

Here is a link to the list.

http://www.uconnhuskies.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/conn/genrel/auto_pdf/BIGEASTAllAcademicTeam