University of Minnesota Athletics

FIFTEEN GOLDEN GOPHERS NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN TEAM

12/4/2000 12:00:00 AM | Athletics

mustThe University of Minnesota football and cross country programs placed 15 athletes on this year's Academic All-Big Ten Team. To be eligible for Academic Academic All-Big Ten selection, an athlete must be a letterwinner in at least their second academic year at their institution and carry a career grade-point average of 3.0 or better. Nine Golden Gophers are returning award winners. A complete list of athletes follows:

Football Akeem Akinwale (Jr., Coon Rapids, Minn.) 3.31 Kinesiology Michael Albert (Jr., Busek Germany) 3.58 International Business Derek Burns (Jr., Eden Prairie, Minn) 3.44 Marketing Michael Cernoch (Sr., Burnsville, Minn.) 3.14 Marketing & Human Resources Preston Gruening (So,. Schofield, Wis.) 3.24 Marketing Ben Hamilton (Sr., Plymouth, Minn.) 3.15 Civil Engineering Dan Kwapinski (So., Fort Ransom, N.D.) 3.68 Biology Astein Osei (Jr., Bolingbrook, Ill.) 3.25 Mass Communications Zachary Vevea (Jr., Elk River, Minn.) 3.06 Intercollegiate Program/Emphasis in Rhetoric Speech Communication Eli Ward (So., Akron, Ohio) 3.32 Pre-Business Blake Zochert (Sr., GreenBay, Wis.) 3.18 Individual Study/Emphasis in Mass Communications Cross Country Joe Corr (Jr., Redmond, Wash.) 3.62 Political Science Andrew Kummer (So., White Bear Lake, Minn.) 3.42 Biology/Pre- Medicine Luke Mullranin (So., Bemidji, Minn.) 3.31 Engineering Jason Owen (Sr., Stewartville, Minn.) 3.21 Computer Science

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