Augsburg’s Hildebrandt named Academic All-American
Augsburg All American Alex Hildebrandt
Augsburg’s Alex Hildebrandt has been named to the 2008 ESPN The Magazine, Academic All-America® Men’s Soccer Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. He was named Third Team Academic All-America in the College Division (non-Division I).
Augsburg College junior defender Alex Hildebrandt (St. Paul, Minn./Highland Park) is a finance major with a 3.86 grade-point average. The award is the latest for Hildebrandt, who earned All-MIAC and All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team honors earlier this week. Hildebrandt currently stands second on the Augsburg men’s soccer team in scoring, with four goals and six assists for 14 points, including one game-winning goal and a penalty-kick goal. He was the leader of an Augsburg defense that allowed just 11 goals this season (0.47 team goals-against-average) with 13 shutouts.
The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Teams program honors male and female student-athletes who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, the College Sports Information Directors of America; a 2,000-member organization consisted of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.
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