A record 63 Nevada student-athletes from fall sports earned Academic All-Mountain West honors last season, with the accolades announced by the conference office on Tuesday.
The number was up by 13 from last year’s record of 50 student-athletes honored for the same achievement. In order to qualify for academic all-Conference honors, student-athletes must have completed at least one academic semester/quarter at the member institution, have a cumulative grade-point-average, at the member institution, of 3.0 or better, and competed in 50 percent of the team’s varsity contests.
The Nevada contingent was part of a league-record 614 student-athletes within the conference who were named to the team for the fall season, which consists of football, volleyball, women’s soccer and cross country.