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Veresova at the NCAA Doubles Championship, after leading the Huskers to their firstever NCAA Sweet 16 as a team. For her performances on the court, in the classroom
and in the community, Weatherholt claimed the ITA/Cissie Leary National Award for
Sportsmanship, one of the top honors in collegiate tennis.
In addition to Nebraska’s continued success in creating CoSIDA Academic AllAmericans, the Huskers produced a record 705 Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll
selections during the fall and spring semesters of 2012-13. A total of 188 Huskers were
honored as academic All-Big Ten recipients, while 105 NU student-athletes earned
degrees in 2012-13.
Nebraska’s Academic Highlights
• 310 All-Time CoSIDA Academic All-Americans across all sports (leads nation)
107 Football Academic All-Americans (leads all sports, all time)
37 Volleyball Academic All-Americans (leads all women’s sports, all time)
29 Softball Academic All-Americans (No. 2 among all women’s sports, all time)
35 Men’s & Women’s Track & Field Academic All-Americans
(leads nation since 2002)
• Eight CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in 2012-13 (4 first-team, 4 secondteam)
First-Team: Rex Burkhead (Football), Bjorn Barrefors (Men’s Track & Field),
Gina Mancuso (Volleyball), Josh Ihnen (Wrestling)
Second-Team: Sean Fisher (Football), Mara Griva (Women’s Track & Field),
Morgan Wilken (Women’s Track & Field), Emily Wong (Women’s Gymnastics)
One NCAA Top Ten Award (Mary Weatherholt, Women’s Tennis)
• Two NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Winners ($7,500)
Sean Fisher (Football), Bjorn Barrefors (Men’s Track & Field)
• Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarship Winners ($7,500)
Conor McDermott (Football), Megan Southworth (Softball)
• Big Ten Medal of Honor Winners
Bjorn Barrefors (Men’s Track & Field, Mary Weatherholt (Women’s Tennis)
• Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Winners
Rex Burkhead (Football), Emily Wong (Women’s Gymnastics)
• 188 Academic All-Big Ten Selections Across All Sports (3.0 GPA)
• School-Record 705 Student-Athletes Honored on the Nebraska ScholarAthlete Fall and Spring Honor Rolls (3.0 GPA or above)
• 84 Student-Athletes Earned Perfect 4.0 GPAs in either the Fall or Spring
Semester
• 105 Student-Athletes Earned Degrees from August 2012 through May 2013
(August 2012-11; December 2012-36; May 2013-58)
• Male Student-Athlete of the Year - Bjorn Barrefors, Men’s Track & Field
(Computer Science)
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