ACC Announces 2002 Academic All-ACC Football Team
1/30/2003 7:00:00 AM | Football
Jan. 30, 2003
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Thirteen players who earned first or second team All-Conference honors this past season also secured spots on the 2002 Atlantic Coast Conference All-Academic football team as announced by Commissioner John Swofford. To be eligible, a player must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the fall semester or have maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career.
Heading up the 33-member All-Academic team is Virginia quarterback Matt Schaub, the 2002 ACC Player of the Year, and five players who earned All-America recognition this past season - Florida State's Brett Williams, Maryland's Todd Wike, Steve Suter and Madieu Williams and NC State's Chris Colmer. Other first or second team All-ACC selections named were Maryland's Nick Novak, Duke's Shawn Johnson, Georgia Tech's Jeremy Muyres and Luke Manget, Maryland's Brooks Barnard, Duke's Alex Wade and Florida State's Michael Boulware.
Georgia Tech's Dan Dyke, a four-time Verizon Academic All-American and a four-time All-ACC Academic team selection, heads up a list of eight players that are repeaters from last year's All-Academic team. Other repeaters from the 2001 team are Georgia Tech's Kelley Rhino, Duke's Chris Douglas and Shawn Johnson, Clemson's Khaleed Vaughn, Maryland's Todd Wike and Georgia Tech's Jeremy Muyres. Wike and Muyres were each named to the honors team for a third time.
2002 All-ACC Academic Football Team
OFFENSE: Pos. Player GPA Major OB Matt Schaub, Jr., Virginia 3.15 Economics of Education OB James MacPherson, Sr., Wake Forest 3.69 Business OB Chris Douglas, Jr., Duke 3.57 Computer Science OB Alex Wade, Jr., Duke 3.83 History WR Robert Morgan, Sr., Florida State 3.00 Sports Management WR Steve Suter, So., Maryland 4.00 Criminal Justice TE Calen Powell, Jr., Duke 3.43 Cultural Anthropology & Visual Arts OL Brett Williams, Sr., Florida State 3.75 Sports Management OL Todd Wike, Sr., Maryland 3.11* Philosophy OL Jeb Terry, Jr., North Carolina 3.50 Business OL Chris Colmer, Jr., NC State 3.25 Technology Education OL William Henry, Gr., Clemson 3.33 Human Resource Development OL Drew Strojny, Sr., Duke 3.50 Philosophy PK Nick Novak, So., Maryland 4.00 Kinesiological Sciences PK Luke Manget, Sr., Georgia Tech 3.66 History Technology & SocietyDEFENSE: Pos. Player GPA Major DL Shawn Johnson, Sr., Duke 3.67 Biological Anthropolgy & Anatomy DL Matt Zielinski, Sr., Duke 3.00 Economics DL Khaleed Vaughn, Jr., Clemson 3.50 Human Resource Development DL Kevin Emanuel, Jr., Florida State 3.30 Sports Management LB Rodney Thomas, Sr., Clemson 3.00 Parks & Recreation, Tourism Management LB Michael Boulware, Jr., Florida State 3.19 Education LB Brad White, Jr., Wake Forest 3.00 Business LB Ryan Fowler, Jr., Duke 3.25 Sociology LB Daryl Smith, Jr., Georgia Tech 3.37 Management LB Doug Justice, Fr., North Carolina 3.45* Undecided DB Jeremy Muyres, Sr., Georgia Tech 3.66 Management DB Madieu Williams, Jr., Maryland 3.20 Family Studies DB Shernard Newby, Gr., Virginia 3.00 Social Foundations of Education DB Quintin Williams, Jr., Wake Forest 3.25* Computer Science SP Kelley Rhino, Sr., Georgia Tech 3.10* Management P Dan Dyke, Sr., Georgia Tech 4.00 Electrical Engineering P Brooks Barnard, Sr., Maryland 3.00 Kinesiological Sciences P Austin Herbert, Jr., NC State 3.67 Business Management *denotes career GPA
