IRVING, Texas –– The American Athletic Conference today announced the league's Scholar-Athlete of the Year recipients for the 2020-21 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 male sports. It marked the third consecutive year that Tulsa has had four AAC scholar-athlete award winners.
In the seven-year history of Tulsa's membership in The American, a total of 20 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 All-American Patrick Dever was selected as The American's Male Scholar Athlete of the Year, while also earning Scholar-Athlete of the Year merits for the sport of men's cross-country.