Six Sooners On MPSF All-Academic Team

April 16, 2003

NORMAN, Okla. - True to form for the 2003 season, the NCAA Champion Oklahoma men's gymnastics team led the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation with six student-athletes on the conference All-Academic Team. Leading the pack of Sooners is sophomore Joshua Gore (3.64) who recorded the second highest cumulative G.P.A. in the conference.

"We have always stressed success in the classroom and the gym," said OU head coach Mark Williams. "I am very exciting about these academic achievements and the leadership this group has shown. It is also encouraging to see two sophomores and junior on the list. They have followed the seniors lead and will carry on the tradition of academic excellence within our program."

Joining Gore on the MPSF All-Academic Team are Brett Covey (3.58), Daniel Furney (3.17), Michael Gehart (3.08), Josh Landis (3.00) and Heath Mueller (3.09). Furney, Gore and Covey were Verizon Academic All-Americans in 2002.

Al Beaird, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation executive director, announced the Academic All-MPSF scholar-athletes for Tuesday afternoon. Student-athletes were nominated for this award by their institutions on the basis of the following criteria:

1. 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average.
2. Student-athlete must have completed one full academic year at the member institution prior to the season for which the award is being received and must be at least a sophomore academically.
3. Student-athlete must have competed in fifty percent or more of the institution's competition in the student-athlete's respective sport.

University of Oklahoma Athletics

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