HAYWARD, Calif., -- Cal State East Bay shattered its previous record on Tuesday, as 102 student-athletes earned California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) All-Academic honors for the 2020-21 scholastic year.

Earlier this year, the Pioneers had a record 49 student-athletes named to the CCAA Spring All-Academic Team, a conference-best 14 earn CCAA Winter All-Academic honors and 50 garner CCAA Fall All-Academic. 

In 2019-20, CSUEB had a then-record 95 receive the accolade. Overall, a conference-record 1,171 individuals from the CCAA earned distinction for the 2020-21, a new conference best despite having one less school in the league.

"CCAA student-athletes had to fight through so many challenges in 2020-21 including no conference athletic competition, little to no in-person instruction and all of the rest of the mental and physical issues that COVID brought," reflected CCAA commissioner Mitch Cox. "To see a new high in the number of all-academic honorees despite having one less school in the conference is beyond gratifying. The student-athletes should be extremely proud of themselves and an enormous amount of credit goes to the faculty, coaches and staff that helped keep them focused on their studies."


Introduced in the 2005-06 season, the annual All-Academic Award recognizes undergraduate student-athletes who competed in a Conference-sponsored sport and earned a varsity letter during the academic year while also earning a 3.40 grade-point average or higher during the designated academic year.

The CCAA and NCAA Division II supports the educational mission of college athletics by fostering a balanced and inclusive approach in which student-athletes learn and develop through their desired academic pursuits, in civic engagement with their communities and in athletics competition, creating a life in the balance.

This present demonstration of the academic achievements of each of the CCAA's conference constituents during the 2019-20 season illustrates just one of the many ways student-athletes in the conference take advantage of the unique opportunity Division II provides to compete in the classroom, on the field, in their career, for their causes, and on their terms.
 


2020-21 CCAA All-Academic Award | Complete List (.pdf)

Institution	Total Student-Athletes
Cal Poly Pomona	110
Cal State Dominguez Hills	71
Cal State East Bay	102
Cal State LA	71
Cal State Monterey Bay	112
Cal State San Bernardino	52
Cal State San Marcos	145
Chico State	109
Humboldt State	89
San Francisco State	110
Sonoma State	115
Stanislaus State	83