Huskies Place 17 On Academic All-Pac-12 Teams
November 30, 2017 | Football, Student-Athlete Academic Services
SAN FRANCISCO – A total of 17 Washington football players – five first-team selections, four second-teamers and eight honorable mention recipients – have earned Academic All-Pac-12 honors, the conference office announced today.
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Two-time first-team selections Ben Burr-Kirven and Tevis Bartlett were joined on the top squad by wide receiver John Gardner, safety Taylor Rapp and kicker Van Soderberg.
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Burr-Kirven, a junior linebacker from Menlo Park, Calif.,. was also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 first team earlier this fall. The Huskies' leading tackler boasts a 3.58 grade point average in comparative literature, cinema and media studies.
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Bartlett, a junior from Cheyenne, Wyo., leads the UW with 12 tackles for loss. He's an education, community & organizations (ECO) major with a 3.65 GPA. Gardner is a junior from Woodinville who is a regular on the kickoff team and has a 3.54 GPA as a mathematics major.
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Rapp, a sophomore from Bellingham, Wash., was also named to the Academic All-District 8 team. The Pac-12 Defensive Freshman of the Year in 2016, he is second on the team in tackles and has a 3.66 grade point average. This fall, he was admitted to the Foster School of Business. Finally, Van Soderberg is a redshirt-freshman from Olympia, Wash., who has handled kickoffs, field goals and PATs during portions of this season. He has compiled a 3.91 GPA as a pre-engineering major.
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Quarterback Jake Browning (3.37, business/finance) and offensive lineman Luke Wattenberg (3.36, pre-engineering) represented the offense on the second team while linemen Greg Gaines (3.25, extended pre-major) and Levi Onwuzurike (pre-arts & sciences) made it on the defensive side.
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Additionally, the following eight players earned honorable mention: long snapper A.J. Carty, linebacker Sean Constantine, tight end Will Dissly, center Coleman Shelton, offensive guard Nick Harris, tight end Drew Sample, defensive lineman Vita Vea and kicker Tristan Vizcaino.
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Only Utah, with six, had more first-team selections than Washington; while only Stanford, with 13, had more first- and second-team honorees, combined, than the Huskies' nine.
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Two-time first-team selections Ben Burr-Kirven and Tevis Bartlett were joined on the top squad by wide receiver John Gardner, safety Taylor Rapp and kicker Van Soderberg.
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Burr-Kirven, a junior linebacker from Menlo Park, Calif.,. was also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 first team earlier this fall. The Huskies' leading tackler boasts a 3.58 grade point average in comparative literature, cinema and media studies.
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Bartlett, a junior from Cheyenne, Wyo., leads the UW with 12 tackles for loss. He's an education, community & organizations (ECO) major with a 3.65 GPA. Gardner is a junior from Woodinville who is a regular on the kickoff team and has a 3.54 GPA as a mathematics major.
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Rapp, a sophomore from Bellingham, Wash., was also named to the Academic All-District 8 team. The Pac-12 Defensive Freshman of the Year in 2016, he is second on the team in tackles and has a 3.66 grade point average. This fall, he was admitted to the Foster School of Business. Finally, Van Soderberg is a redshirt-freshman from Olympia, Wash., who has handled kickoffs, field goals and PATs during portions of this season. He has compiled a 3.91 GPA as a pre-engineering major.
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Quarterback Jake Browning (3.37, business/finance) and offensive lineman Luke Wattenberg (3.36, pre-engineering) represented the offense on the second team while linemen Greg Gaines (3.25, extended pre-major) and Levi Onwuzurike (pre-arts & sciences) made it on the defensive side.
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Additionally, the following eight players earned honorable mention: long snapper A.J. Carty, linebacker Sean Constantine, tight end Will Dissly, center Coleman Shelton, offensive guard Nick Harris, tight end Drew Sample, defensive lineman Vita Vea and kicker Tristan Vizcaino.
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Only Utah, with six, had more first-team selections than Washington; while only Stanford, with 13, had more first- and second-team honorees, combined, than the Huskies' nine.
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