NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference placed nearly 3,000 student-athletes to the Commissioner's List and Academic Honor Roll for the 2022-23 school year. In addition, 140 student-athletes earned the 1A FAR Academic Excellence Award.
With a combined 223 honorees among the lists for the Academic Honor Roll (league-high 102 members), Commissioner's List (109 members) and 1A Far Academic Excellence Award (12 members), App State ranked in the top four among the 14 football-playing Sun Belt institutions.
The Commissioner's List honors student-athletes who earned a 3.5 grade point average (GPA) or better during the 2022-23 academic year, while the Academic Honor Roll honors those student-athletes who maintained a GPA between 3.00 and 3.49 for the academic year.
The 1A FAR Academic Excellence Award recognizes student-athletes at FBS football-sponsoring institutions who earned their undergraduate degrees between September 1, 2022 and August 31, 2023 and compiled a cumulative grade point average of 3.80 or better upon graduation. In addition, the student-athletes must have participated in at least two years of NCAA intercollegiate athletics at an FBS institution.
"We celebrate the academic achievements of these remarkable student-athletes," said Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Keith Gill. "We're extremely proud of their ability to shine at academics while competing in their sports at the highest level."
