Tag: Academic All American

Michigan State bolsters nine academic All-Americans

9 Spartans have earned academic All-American status

As the 2024-25 athletic calendar is set to soon begin, the final close to the 2023-24 athletic calendar has come to a close. With the close of 2023-24, Michigan State athletics has announced which Spartans have earned academic All-American status.

Of the nine, they come from eight different sports including baseball, men’s and women’s track & field, field hockey, men’s tennis, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s golf.

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Sooners safety Pat Fields named 2nd team Academic All-American

Pat Fields racked up another academic all-American award from the College Sports Information Directors of America’s preseason awards.

The Oklahoma Sooners continue to rack up preseason awards. This time it was on the academic side of things as Sooners’ safety Pat Fields was named a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America All-American second-team

Fields, a junior on the 2020 OU football squad, has compiled a 3.81 GPA while simultaneously pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting and a master’s degree in accounting. He is projected to complete both in December 2021. He was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 7 Team last month. -OU Athletics Dept press release

Pat Fields was selected to the Big 12 Academic first-team in 2019 and 2020 and is set to complete both his Bachelor’s in Business Administration in Accounting and Masters in Accounting degrees in December per SoonerSports.com

Fields is projected to start again at safety for the Sooners after playing in 10 games last year for Oklahoma.

One of the leaders in the secondary, Pat Fields has been a steady part of Alex Grinch’s defensive alignment. Playing solid coverage and being tremendous in run support.

Going into his fourth season with the team, the redshirt Junior looks to build upon a season that saw him collect his first career interception and post the best passer rating against (74.4) and completion percentage when targeted (53.3%) of his Sooners career per Pro Football Focus.

If Pat Fields is able to build off his impressive 2020, that would be a huge boon for and Oklahoma Sooners’ defense that is a key to the team’s national championship hopes.

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