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Sappleton Earns Academic All-America Honors
July 06, 2005 | Track and Field
NORMAN, Okla. -- Aldwyn Sappleton, who completed his competitive career for the University of Oklahoma in May, has been named to the ESPN, The Magazine Academic All-America team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Sappleton, a graduate student in the business administration program, was named to the third team.
The CoSIDA Academic All-America program is the oldest in the country and is sponsored by ESPN, The Magazine. The honorees are nominated by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America and must have a 3.20 cumulative grade point average and be a key member of the team. District teams are voted on by CoSIDA members within the district, then district nominees are advanced to a national ballot which is voted on by the CoSIDA Academic All-America committee.
Sappleton was one of two Sooner men named to the all-district team. Jason Coleman was the other. Another Sooner who completed her career in May, Jackie Dubois, was named to the women's second team all-district.
This marks the first time in his five-year Sooner career for Sappleton to earn national honors. He was a second team all-district honoree in 2003 before earning first team honors this year.
Sappleton, who is from Clarendon, Jamaica, finished his undergraduate degree in international business with a minor in economics in May 2004, then began work on his master's of business administration while completing his athletic career. He finished his undergraduate degree with a 3.55 GPA and has a 3.33 GPA in graduate work.
He was named a 2005 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Award winner in April and ended his competitive career for OU at the NCAA Midwest Regionals in late May. He ended his career as a four-time NCAA All-American. He won two Big 12 titles in his career and was an eight-time All-Big 12 honoree. He earned first team Academic All-Big 12 honors four times and was a two-time first team selection in cross country.
He received the 2005 Coca Cola Community Service All-American award for excellence in community service and was an eight-time honoree on the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll. In 2004-2005, he served OU's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee as vice president for communication and he received the 2005 OU Athletics Council Service Award in April.
Sappleton repeated as the Jamaican Senior National Champion in the 800 two weeks ago and will travel to Nassau, Bahamas, this weekend to compete as a member of the Jamaican National Team at the Central American and Caribbean Senior Athletics Championships. He will be trying to lower his season best time in the 800, a 1:49.40 which he recorded in the Jamaican National Championships, to meet the world qualifying standard. Should he meet the world standard this weekend, Sappleton will be a member of the Jamaican National Team at the IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 8-14.
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