SELINSGROVE, PA (March 15, 2022) -- The awards continued to pile up for Susquehanna University men's basketball senior guard
Lukas Yurasits, who was named as a 2022 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA)Third Team Academic All-American Tuesday morning.
Yurasits was one of only 15 players nationally to earn the honor, as the New York native posted a 3.94 grade point average as a double-major in both chemistry and physics. Yurasits was the only player in the Landmark Conference to be honored, coming off a historic season for the River Hawks. The senior helped SU to a 24-6 overall mark, tying for the school record in victories for a year.
Susquehanna earned the Landmark Conference title for the second time in three seasons, as Yurasits was named to the Landmark Conference First Team after leading the squad in scoring. Yurasits needed just three seasons to get to 1,000 points for his career, finishing with 1,006 as he registerd the accomplishment in the NCAA Tournament Second Round against No. 4 Christopher Newport University.
Academically, Yurasits has earned a spot on the Susquehanna University Dean's List every semester at SU, while also earning a the Sigma Nu Tau scholarship. Yurasits is only the fifth player in Susquehanna University men's basketball history to earn Academic All-American accolades and the first since 1994. Yurasits joins Mike Scheib (1977, 1978), Donald Harnum (1986), Tony Balistrere (1993) and Tres Wolf (1994) on the exclusive list. Yurasits is also just the 35th Susquehanna student-athlete to earn the honor in school history.
CoSIDA began the distinguished Academic All-America® program in 1952, and since then, has honored thousands of deserving student-athletes from numerous sports across all divisions with these elite Academic All-America® scholar-athlete honors.
Currently, CoSIDA sponsors Academic All-America® programs for men's soccer, women's soccer, football, volleyball, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball and men's and women's track and field/cross country. Many other sports are eligible through the
At-Large program.
The 2011-12 school year marked the first year that the Academic All-America® program expanded to four divisional teams. Student-athletes were honored in NCAA Divisions I, II and III, while a fourth team — the College Division — was comprised of NAIA, Canadian and two-year institutions. This expansion enabled CoSIDA to double the number of student-athletes honored on an annual basis.
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