CHARLOTTE – Just over a week after shattering a school record with 87 Academic All-MACJC honorees, Northwest Mississippi Community College has set another academic milestone with a record with 54 student-athletes earning NJCAA All-Academic honors for the 2019-20 academic year.
This year's total breaks the previous record of 43 NJCAA All-Academic recipients from the 2015-16 school year. Since then, Northwest has posted 41 national academic honorees (2016-17), 23 (2017-18) and 39 for the 2018-19 school year.
NJCAA All-Academic Student-Athlete Awards are broken down into three teams, with the qualifying grade-point average for each honor as follows: All-Academic First Team: 4.00 GPA; All-Academic Second Team: 3.80-3.99 GPA; All-Academic Third Team: 3.60-3.79 GPA.
All-Academic First Team honors went to
Presley Farr (women's soccer),
Claire Fleming (women's basketball),
Taylor Fletcher (women's basketball),
Noah Hattier (baseball),
Morgan Hodum (women's basketball),
Jacoby Jones (football)
Ty Leatherwood (baseball) and
Katelyn Rock (women's soccer).
NJCAA All-Academic Second Team honorees were
Brittni Beard (softball),
Cade Bell (baseball),
Mallary Cox (women's soccer),
Mary Britton Faulkner (softball),
Mario Fenner, Jr. (men's basketball),
Molly Beth Ferguson (softball),
Dillan Fiveash (baseball),
Lindsay Hall (women's basketball),
Jake Heinze (men's soccer),
Verenzo Holmes, Jr. (football),
Addisyn Hughes (women's soccer),
Hunter Hulsey (football),
Will Logsdon (baseball),
Kaylei Peterson (softball),
Madison Pharr (women's basketball),
Landon Rogers (baseball),
Braden Smith (football),
Cade Spratlin (baseball),
Abby Stephens (softball),
Jack Strouse (football),
Adrian Suarez (men's soccer),
Logan Tomlinson (women's soccer),
Allie Williams (women's basketball) and
Macey Wilson (softball).
NJCAA All-Academic Third Team members were
Desmyn Baker (football),
Lacey Coats (softball),
Madison Crosby (softball),
Kristin Davidson (women's soccer),
Kayla Freeman (women's basketball),
Kelton Hall (baseball),
Arie Hicks (women's soccer),
Tyson Keys (football),
Oakley Laughter (softball),
Reed Logsdon (baseball),
Delta Claire Newman (softball),
Dodger Rhone (men's soccer),
Mallory Russell (women's basketball),
Emma Grace Schell (softball),
Sydney Shelton (women's soccer),
Jackson Smith (baseball),
Hannah Vanderford (women's soccer),
Vance Van Every (football),
Jack Walker (football),
Levi Walker III (football),
Hayley White (women's soccer) and
Zach Willingham (baseball).
In addition, Northwest saw six of its teams finish as NJCAA All-Academic teams for achieving a 3.0 cumulative GPA or better. Softball led the way with a 3.53 GPA, followed by women's soccer (3.5), women's basketball (3.48), baseball (3.41), football (3.02) and men's basketball (3.01).
