2014-15 ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTS
320 All-Time CoSIDA Academic All-Americans across all
sports (leads nation)
·107 Football CoSIDA Academic All-Americans (leads all
sports, all time)
·37 Volleyball CoSIDA Academic All-Americans (leads all
women’s sports, all time)
·29 Softball CoSIDA Academic All-Americans (No. 2
among all women’s sports, all time)
·41 Men’s & Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country
Combined CoSIDA Academic All-Americans
(leads nation since CoSIDA added team in 2002)
CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year in 2014-15
John Welk (Men’s Track & Field)
Six CoSIDA Academic All-Americans in 2014-15
(4 first-team, 1 second-team, 1 third-team)
First Team: Levi Gipson (Men’s Track & Field),
Shavon Shields (Men’s Basketball)
John Welk (Men’s Track & Field)
Drew Wiseman (Men’s Track & Field)
Second Team: Ethan Lottman (Men’s Gymnastics)
Third Team: Ryan Boldt (Baseball)
NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Winners ($7,500 each)
John Welk (Men’s Track & Field)
More than 400 student-athletes were honored at the academic
banquet, including 68 gold (3.750 to 4.000 GPA), 61 silver
(3.500 to 3.749 GPA) and 140 bronze (3.000 to 3.499 GPA)
medallion winners. Six Huskers earned Outstanding Scholar
Awards, presented to seniors exhausting their eligibility with
a cumulative GPA of 3.900 or better. The honorees included:
Mark Hilderbrand (Track and Field, 3.948 GPA); Amanda Lauer
(Women’s Gymnastics, 3.973 GPA); Jennifer Lauer (Women’s
Gymnastics, 3.944 GPA); Will Lohman (pictured above, Track
and Field, 4.000 GPA); Josh Reinertson (Men’s Golf, 3.970
GPA); and John Welk (Track and Field, 3.996 GPA).
In 2014-15, 118 Huskers earned their college degrees – the
ultimate goal of all student-athletes, including senior Ameer
Abdullah (pictured above). Abdullah became the third Husker
in history and the first male across Nebraska’s sports to earn
a prestigious Senior CL 52v&B