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110 SF State Student-Athletes Earn CCAA All-Academic Award

A conference-record 1,171 individuals from the CCAA have earned distinction as All-Academic Award recipients for the 2020-21 scholastic year, eclipsing last year's benchmark.

"CCAA student-athletes had to fight through so many challenges in 2020-21 including no conference athletic competition, little to no in-person instruction and all of the rest of the mental and physical issues that COVID brought," reflected CCAA commissioner Mitch Cox. "To see a new high in the number of all-academic honorees despite having one less school in the conference is beyond gratifying. The student-athletes should be extremely proud of themselves and an enormous amount of credit goes to the faculty, coaches and staff that helped keep them focused on their studies."

Introduced in the 2005-06 season, this year's All-Academic Award recognizes undergraduate student-athletes who were on a roster in good standing in a Conference-sponsored sport and earned a varsity letter during the academic year while also achieving a 3.40 grade-point average or higher during the 2020-21 school year.

Nearly every school showed an increase in the total number of student-athletes represented on the lists, with more than half of the conference surpassing the 100-member threshold. Cal State San Marcos led the way in the classroom with 145 All-Academic honorees. The Cougars are followed by Sonoma State (115), State Monterey Bay (112), Cal Poly Pomona (110), San Francisco State (110), Chico State (109), and Cal State East Bay (102) as fellow triple-digit departments.

Seven member-institutions saw a double-digit percentage increase, with Cal State Dominguez Hills' figures growing by a remarkable 61.4 percent. Other climbers included Cal Poly Pomona's 37.5 percent increase, San Francisco State's jump of 31 percent, and Cal State LA's 29.1 percent improvement. Stanislaus State, Cal State San Marcos and Cal State Monterey Bay round out the largest leaps forward.

The CCAA and NCAA Division II supports the educational mission of college athletics by fostering a balanced and inclusive approach in which student-athletes learn and develop through their desired academic pursuits, in civic engagement with their communities and in athletics competition, creating a life in the balance.

This present demonstration of the academic achievements of each of the CCAA's conference constituents during the 2020-21 season illustrates just one of the many ways student-athletes in the conference take advantage of the unique opportunity Division II provides to compete in the classroom, on the field, in their career, for their causes, and on their terms.
 
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