{"id":78773,"date":"2023-03-17T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=78773"},"modified":"2023-03-20T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T12:44:16","slug":"mens-senior-forward-named-first-team-academic-all-american-second-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_17_2023\/mens-senior-forward-named-first-team-academic-all-american-second-straight-year","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Senior Forward Named First-Team Academic All-American Second-Straight Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

UToledo senior forward\u00a0JT Shumate\u00a0has been named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Men’s Basketball First Team.<\/p>\n

Shumate is the first Rocket men’s basketball player to ever earn first Academic All-American in back-to-back seasons and just the third Rocket ever in any sport. Dana Drew (women’s basketball) and Kate Bean (women’s volleyball) were the previous student-athletes to do so in 1994 and 1995 and 2005 and 2006, respectively.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Shumate has a 3.84 grade point average in middle childhood education and is one of six student-athletes in the nation to be selected to the first-team squad.<\/p>\n

Shumate has earned first-team NABC All-District and All-Mid-American Conference honors this season. He is tied for second on the team with 16.0 ppg and leads the Rockets with 1.2 bpg and an 87.4 free-throw percentage.<\/p>\n

Shumate ranks first in program history in career marks with a 43.5 three-point FG% and an 84.4 FT%. He also ranks fourth all-time with a 55.5 FG% and fifth with 114 blocked shots.<\/p>\n

To be eligible for Academic All-America, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his current institution and be nominated by their respective sports information director.<\/p>\n

Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Academic All-America Teams program, visit\u00a0www.cosida.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

JT Shumate is the third Rocket in any sport to twice receive the honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,50,56,53,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78777,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78773\/revisions\/78777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}