| Rensselaer Among National Leaders in Number of Academic All-Americans
Rensselaer ranks third in Division III and 10th in the nation among NCAA and NAIA schools in the number of student-athletes chosen for National Academic All-American honors over the past three academic years. From 2000-01 to 2002-03, Rensselaer has produced 15 National Academic All-Americans.
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"This is a tremendous accomplishment that we are very, very proud of," said Ken Ralph, Rensselaer’s director of athletics. "Rensselaer's student body is made up of very intelligent and gifted individuals and our student-athletes are obviously no exception. In fact, I look at them as the 'rule' more than the 'exception'."Rensselaer is among the top 10 in the company of the University of Nebraska, Emory University, the University of Notre Dame, Truman State, the University of Alabama, Pittsburgh State University, Pennsylvania State, Gustavus Adolphus College, and Stanford University. Among the schools that fill out the top 20 are Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue, Kansas State, and Rice University.
Members of the football, women's soccer, men's swimming and diving, track and field, and men's tennis teams are among those Rensselaer student-athletes who have been recognized with National Academic All-America awards since 2000-01.
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"This is a tremendous accomplishment that we are very, very proud of. Rensselaer's student body is made up of very intelligent and gifted individuals and our student-athletes are obviously no exception. In fact, I look at them as the 'rule' more than the 'exception'."
—Ken Ralph—
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The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) selects Academic All-America teams in 12 programs: football, women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's track & field/cross country, women's track & field/cross country, men's at-large and women's at-large. A first team, second team, and third team are selected in both the University (Division I and I-AA) and College (Division II, III and NAIA) Divisions. Football consists of just first and second teams.
There are 1,038 schools at all levels of the NCAA, including 327 in Division I, 281 in Division II and 430 in Division III. In the NAIA, there are 297 member institutions. The information was compiled by Millsport Inc., a sports sponsorship, strategy, and event management firm based in Stamford, Conn.
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