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Fourteen Long Beach State athletes were honored today as the Big West Conference released the 2008 Big West Academic All-Conference Teams for Fall Sports.<\/span><\/p>\n Soccer led the way, as the Big West champions had seven players recognized for their dual efforts on the field and in the classroom. <\/span>Academic All-District honoree Lindsay Bullock was joined by Hayley Bolt, Kristen Kiefer, Liz Ramos, Mariko Strickland, Sarah Strohl and Tiffany Vaught as Academic All-Big West.<\/span><\/p>\n Women’s cross country also had multiple honorees, with five in Missy Barclay, Carly Harris, Jennifer Rodriguez, Melissa Velasquez and Kristina Wilson. <\/span>Steven DeCastro of men’s cross country and Laura Schuck of women’s volleyball rounded out Long Beach State’s selections.<\/span><\/p>\n To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must have made a significant contribution to their team, have finished their freshman year and carry a cumulative GPA of 3.20 or higher.<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, <\/b><\/span>three members of the 2008 Long Beach State men’s water polo squad were selected All-Academic All-MPSF student-athletes as announced by MPSF executive director Al Beaird Thursday afternoon. <\/span>Seniors Ashley Blythen and Pavle Filipovic and junior Justin Koeppen were awarded the honor based on their cumulative GPAs acquired at Long Beach State. <\/span>To make the All-Academic squad for the MPSF, student-athletes must have competed in at least fifty percent of the school’s competition schedule and must own a cumulative 3.0 or better.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The All-Academic lists have been released, and it turns out the 49ers are as good in the classroom as they are on the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}