Five Rice Teams Earn C-USA Academic Award
8/6/2019 10:36:00 AM | Football, Men's Golf, Men's Track & Field, Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country
Football, golf, men’s track and field, women’s basketball and women’s cross country honored
Rice's football, golf, men's track and field, women's basketball and women's cross country teams were honored. This marks the fifth consecutive award for football, men's track and field and women's cross country and the second consecutive award for golf.
FIU was presented C-USA's Institutional Excellence Award, which is given to the C-USA institution with the highest GPA during each academic year for all student-athletes in conference-sponsored sports.
The following is a list of all the Sports Academic Award honorees (with notations if the team earned the same honor last season).
C-USA Sport - Recipient (*repeat winner)
Baseball - Old Dominion
Men's Basketball - FIU
Women's Basketball - Rice
Men's Cross Country - Louisiana Tech*
Women's Cross Country - Rice*
Football - Rice*
Men's Golf - Rice*
Women's Golf - FIU
Men's Soccer - *South Carolina
Women's Soccer - Charlotte
Softball - *Charlotte
Women's Swimming - FIU
Men's Tennis - Middle Tennessee*
Women's Tennis - Marshall
Men's Track & Field - Rice*
Women's Track & Field - Marshall
Women's Volleyball - Middle Tennessee
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