Utah State Lands 32 on Academic MPSF Team

Utah State Lands 32 on Academic MPSF Team

Aggies lead the league in honorees, topping Stanford and others

Utah State landed 32 track and field athletes on the academic all-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation team it was announced recently. Utah State's selections were the most in the league, edging out Stanford's 30 qualifiers.

Among USU's selections were NCAA Outdoor Championship qualifiers Ryan Bruhn, Joel Johnson and Justin Wickard. Mitch Zundel, the Big West individual cross country champion in the fall, was also named to the team.

In all, Utah State had 16 men's selections and 16 women's honorees. Stanford had a league high 17 men as well as 13 women. In addition to Utah State's 32 overall selections and Stanford's 30, Arizona was third with 16 honorees. Oregon had 15 selections, Washington State, Cal State Northridge and Idaho 13 and Long Beach State 10. Four other schools had honorees as well.

To qualify for the team, student-athletes must own a 3.0 cumulative grade point average, be a sophomore academically, completed one year at the school, and compete in at least 50 percent of the team's competitions.

This year, 106 USU student-athletes were named to academic all-conference teams.

To see the list of Utah State scholar athletes click here.