BOONE, N.C. – The 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives Association has named its recipients of the 1A FAR Academic Excellence Awards, and Appalachian State has five winners representing three Mountaineer sports among the 600 Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) graduates that received the honor.
The five App State recipients:
Jaron Bradley – Finance & Banking – Men's Soccer
Taylor Drummonds – Communication Sciences & Disorders – Women's Track & Field
Katie Mathewson – Communication Studies – Softball
Makayla Roten – Management – Women's Track & Field
Tristin Van Ord – Sustainable Development – Women's Track & Field
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.
52 student-athletes in the Sun Belt Conference were honored.
"Please join me in congratulating these outstanding student-athletes at our member institutions, who have excelled not only in their sport but also in the classroom." said
Alan Hauser, Sun Belt Conference 1A FAR liaison from Appalachian State. "They set a strong example for the many student-athletes in the Sun Belt Conference who study and compete at our member institutions, and are a model for what higher education is all about,"
The award was given to 644 student-athletes nationally: 161 men and 483 women.
"On behalf of the Sun Belt Conference and its 12 outstanding universities, I would like to congratulate these student-athletes on their academic achievements and accomplishments – both on the fields and courts of competition and more importantly in the classroom. These student-athletes exemplify the wide majority of all the student-athletes who participate in sports and under the Sun Belt umbrella," said Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson.
