IRVING, Texas –– The American Athletic Conference today announced the league's scholar-athlete of the year recipients for the 2019-20 academic year.
The University of Tulsa student-athletes garnered four sport specific scholar-athlete honors while also earning the overall scholar-athlete award for the league's female sports. It marked the second consecutive year that Tulsa has had four AAC scholar-athlete award winners.
In the six-year history of Tulsa's membership in The American, a total of 16 Golden Hurricane student-athletes have now been recognized as their particular sports recipient of the scholar-athlete of the year award.
Cross-country and track star Caitlin Klopfer was selected as The American's Female Scholar Athlete of the Year, while also earning scholar-athlete of the year merits for the sport of women's cross-country.