| July 18, 2006
Wolfe named to USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Men’s All-Academic Team
SAN ANTONIO - The awards keep rolling in for UTSA senior Bryan Wolfe as the Raymondville native has been named to the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) NCAA Division I Men’s All-Academic Team.
The USTFCCCA honors individuals and teams for their academic and athletic accomplishments during the indoor and outdoor track seasons. To qualify for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track & Field Team, an athlete must have a cumulative grade point average (gpa) of 3.25 or higher and must have met the NCAA Division I regional or national qualifying standard in his event.
Wolfe totes a 3.66 gpa in actuarial science and and already has been named an ESPN The Magazine third team Academic All-American and first team All-District VI honoree this year. He also repeated as the Southland Conference (SLC) Men’s Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Student-Athlete of the Year for the second straight year.
A standout in the combined events, Wolfe won the SLC Outdoor title in the decathlon with 6,887 points on May 13-14 in Arlington. He capped his UTSA career by finishing 11th with 7,111 points at the NCAA Outdoor Championships on June 7-8 in Sacramento, Calif., earning an at-large spot in the NCAA field by posting a personal best 7,260 points at the Texas Relays in April.
Wolfe is a member of the UTSA Honors Program and Junior Achievement Program and the Huddle Leader for UTSA Fellowship of Christian Athletes. His extracurricular activities also include serving on the Babcock Highway Clean-up project for the UTSA athletics department, public speaking engagements with local elementary schools and teaching junior high students about business fields and opportunities.
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