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Sun Belt Conference Honors More Than 2,000 Student-Athletes for Academics

2015-16 Commissioner's List | 2015-16 Academic Honor Roll
NEW ORLEANS - More than 2,000 Sun Belt Conference student-athletes were named to the 2015-16 Commissioner's List and Academic Honor Roll as announced by the league office Tuesday afternoon. The list is comprised of 988 student-athletes on the Commissioner's List and 1,062 student-athletes on the Academic Honor Roll list.

The Commissioner's List honors student-athletes who maintained a 3.5 grade point average or better during the 2015-16 academic year while the Academic Honor Roll honors those student-athletes who maintained a GPA between 3.0 and 3.49 for the academic year.

Coastal Carolina University had the highest number of honorees with 216 student-athletes between the two lists (110 on the Commissioner's List and 106 on the Academic Honor Roll). Georgia State University had the second most student-athletes between the two lists with 208 total. Appalachian State and Troy University totaled 194 student-athletes between the Commissioner's List and Academic Honor Roll. The Mountaineers placed 107 on the Commissioner's List and 87 on the Academic Honor while Troy placed 98 on the Commissioner's List and 96 on the Academic Honor Roll.

Women's Track & Field and Cross Country had the largest number of student-athletes on the Commissioner's List with 141 followed by Women's Soccer which had 138. Football led all sports on the Academic Honor Roll as 262 student-athletes were named to the list. Baseball was second with 134 on the Academic Honor Roll.

Student-athletes who were named to either list will be honored at each sports respective Sun Belt Championship.