Big East News Articles

List of winners includes eight Academic All-America selections and four NCAA Postgraduate Scholars

Two BIG EAST athletes were named to the women’s 2011 Capital One Academic All-America University Division At-Large teams as announced Thursday.

Three BIG EAST athletes, representing three different schools were named to the men’s 2011 Capital One Academic All-America University Division teams as announced Tuesday.

USF baseball sophomore Alex Mendez has recently accepted a position to serve as the BIG EAST liaison for the Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

University of Notre Dame tennis player Tyler Davis and Rutgers University tennis player Amy Zhang have been chosen as the first winners of the American Eagle Outfitters Michael Tranghese Postgraduate Leadership Award, as chosen by the BIG EAST Conference Academic Affairs Committee.

National STUDENT-Athlete Day, a program of the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS), has been celebrated annually on April 6 since 1987.

Sixteen student-athletes – one from each BIG EAST institution – have been awarded $2,000 scholarships as the winners of the 2010-11 American Eagle Outfitters BIG EAST Institutional Female Scholar-Athlete Awards. The selections were made by the conference’s Academic Affairs Committee

Villanova University men’s lacrosse standout Brian Karalunas has been chosen as the 2010-11 American Eagle Outfitters BIG EAST Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The selection was made by the Conference’s Academic Affairs Committee.

Cincinnati running back John Goebel, a member of two BIG EAST championship teams and a key part of some of the most successful seasons in school history, has been chosen as the 2010 American Eagle Outfitters BIG EAST Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

The BIG EAST Conference has announced the names of more than 3,100 student-athletes who have been selected to the 2009-10 BIG EAST All-Academic Team.

Sixteen student-athletes – one from each BIG EAST institution – have been awarded $2,000 scholarships as the winners of the 2010-11 American Eagle Outfitters BIG EAST Institutional Female Scholar-Athlete Awards. The selections were made by the conference’s Academic Affairs Committee

USF baseball sophomore Alex Mendez has recently accepted a position to serve as the BIG EAST liaison for the Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).