GREENSBORO, N.C. – The 65th annual Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll, recognizing academic excellence by student-athletes during the 2020-21 academic year, was announced Tuesday (July 13) by the league.
Virginia placed 493 student-athletes on the Honor Roll. A total of 46 Cavaliers were recognized for the fourth time during their careers and six received the honor for the fifth time. That group includes Charlie Campbell (women’s lacrosse), Louie Hayes (wrestling), Dillon Reinkensmeyer (football), Lizzy Sieracki (women’s soccer), Carl Söderlund (men’s tennis) and Anna Sumpter (women’s soccer).
“We are very proud of our student-athletes who are being recognized for their academic achievements,” said Virginia athletics director Carla Williams. “The year was full of unprecedented challenges and our student-athletes did a wonderful job competing in their respective sports and excelling in their academic pursuits.”
The Honor Roll is comprised of student-athletes who participated in a varsity-level sport and registered a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic year The conference recognized a record 5,791 student-athletes for their hard work in the classroom during the 2020-21 academic year
During the course of the year, UVA had 148 student-athletes named to ACC All-Academic teams and five were named Scholar-Athletes of the Year for their respective sport.
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