Charlotte 49ers redshirt junior defensive end Tyriq Harris (Roanoke, Va./Hidden Valley) has been named to the 2018 InTouch Credit Union Conference USA all-Academic Team for excelling both on and off the football field. Harris was named to the team for the second straight year and is one of five repeat selections on the 11-player team.
One of the 49ers' four team co-captains, Harris owns a 3.63 GPA as a biology major. He was named Google Cloud Academic all-District 3 by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), this month.
A three-year starter for the 49ers, Harris started all 12 games, this season, for a defensive unit that ranked 25th in the nation in total defense (337.