GREENSBORO, N.C. – Devin Carter and Jared Haught of the Virginia Tech wrestling squad were named to the sport’s All-ACC Academic Team, as announced by the ACC. NC State’s Nick Gwiazdowski, who captured his second straight NCAA title at 285 pounds, earned his first berth on the team leading four members of the All-ACC Academic team who also garnered All-Americas honors, were ACC champions and were named to the All-ACC wrestling team. Joining Gwiazdowski were Wilps (Scholar-Athlete of the Year), Carter and Virginia senior Nick Sulzer.
Carter, the 2014 ACC Wrestling Scholar-Athlete, becomes the first wrestler in league history to earn four All-ACC Wrestling citations, four ACC individual Wrestling championships and four All-ACC Academic Wrestling team awards. The All-ACC Wrestling Academic team began in just 2007. Carter was also honored this year as a recipient of the ACC Postgraduate Scholarship.
In all, five members of the Wrestling All-ACC Academic team, also earned All-ACC honors as did Duke’s Jacob Kasper, who joined Gwiazdowski, Wilps, Carter and Sulzer on the All-ACC team.
A total of eight members of this year’s All-ACC Academic Wrestling team have been named to the team multiple times, while eight are repeat selections from 2014, led by Tech’s Carter and North Carolina’s Frank Abbondanza who are four-time All-ACC Academic honorees. They became the fifth and sixth ACC wrestlers to do so.
Wilps, Sulzer, Evan Botwin, Marcus Cain and Jacob Kasper of Duke and Peter Renda of NC State were each named to the All-ACC Academic Wresting team for the second time.
Duke led all schools with five student-athletes on the 2015 All-ACC Academic Wrestling team followed by NC State with four selections. Pitt, Virginia and Virginia Tech each had two honorees, while North Carolina had one.
The ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards were established in September 2007 to be awarded annually to the top junior or senior student-athlete in their respective sports. Candidates for the awards must have maintained a 3.0 grade point average for their career as well as a 3.0 for each of the last two semesters.
To be eligible for All-ACC Academic Team consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a minimum 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a minimum 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career.