Indiana University Athletics
Dean Earns Academic All-District Honors
5/25/2007 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
May 25, 2007
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Junior Max Dean of the Indiana wrestling team has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V second team in the at-large program, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced. This is the first time Dean has been honored by the organization in his Hoosier career.
"This is yet another well-deserved academic honor for Max Dean," head coach Duane Goldman said. "He continues to represent Indiana University and the wrestling team as a model student-athlete, and he was a leader of our team that performed well both athletically and academically this past year."
Dean recently earned National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Academic honors for the third time in three years, and earned Indiana's 11th selection to the squad. He finished his junior campaign 27-16, placing seventh at the Big Ten Championships and qualifying for NCAAs for the third time. A marketing operations management major, Dean was also named Academic All-Big Ten for the third time earlier this year.
To be eligible for CoSIDA Academic All-District honors, a student-athlete must be of sophomore standing or higher and have a grade point average of at least 3.2. The at-large program consists of student-athletes from women's bowling, women's crew, men's and women's fencing, women's field hockey, men's and women's golf, men's and women's gymnastics, men's and women's ice hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's rifle, men's and women's skiing, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's volleyball, men's and women's water polo and wrestling.
Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, a 2,000-member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.
