The Big Ten Conference announced the winter sports Academic All-Conference Team today and Michigan State Athletics was very well represented. Of the 1,130 student-athletes, 110 of them are Spartans. Of the 1,130 Big Ten honorees, only 25 student-athletes had perfect 4.0 PGAs, and a conference-leading four of them were from Michigan State.
The MSU’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams had 47 student-athletes on the list — 25 on the women’s team and 22 on the men’s team. Three of the four perfect MSU GPAs belonged to members of the women’s swimming and diving team with the fourth perfect GPA belonging to a member of the men’s hockey team.