Bledsoe, Hooker Earn Academic All-District Honors
3/22/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Soccer
March 22, 2000
LAS VEGAS - Two UNLV men's soccer players were selected to the GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII Fall/Winter At Large Team, it was announced Wednesday.
Senior goalkeeper Ryan Bledsoe was chosen to the district's first team and will appear on the ballot for the national Academic All-America team next month. Sophomore midfielder Andrew Hooker was named to the second team.
Bledsoe is a Las Vegas native and a graduate student at UNLV, pursuing a master's degree in economics. He holds a 4.00 GPA and started 13 games in the net for the Rebels in 1999.
Hooker, a native of Victoria, B.C., Canada, started all 18 games and was named the Best Offensive Player at the UNM Invitational after leading the Rebels to the tourney title. One of just four sophomores honored at the district level, he carries a 3.88 GPA in mechanical engineering.
GTE and the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) select Academic All-America teams at both the district and national level in most sports. Those sports without a team selected, such as soccer, are grouped into an at-large team. The fall/winter at-large teams includes athletes from soccer, cross country, swimming and diving, skiing, fencing, ice hockey, field hockey, rifle, wrestling, water polo and gymnastics
The national Academic All-America at-large team will be announced on April 18.
