Feb. 21, 2012

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Headed by Florida State’s Michael Fout, eight All-Conference honorees secured spots on the 2011 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Men’s Cross Country Team as announced today by Commissioner John D. Swofford.

To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during her academic career.

The 2011 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for Men’s Cross Country, Fout finished fourth at this year’s ACC Championships, completing the 8K course in 23:11 and keying the Seminoles to a second-place finish. A Psychology major, the La Porte, Ind., senior earned USTFCCCA All-American honors at the NCAA Championship meet where he finished 32nd in a 10k personal-best time of 29:59. Fout earned NCAA All-South Region honors on the strength of his runner-up finish as Florida State won the team title.

All-ACC Academic team members who earned All-ACC honors this past fall are Fout and teammate Seth Proctor, Clemson’s Ty McCormack, Duke’s Andrew Brodeur, North Carolina’s Adam Cunningham, NC State’s Andrew Colley, Virginia Tech’s Michael Hammond and Will Mulherin. Fout, Colley and Mulherin were also USTFCCCA All-Americans.

Cunningham and Moldovan earned berths on the league’s academic honor team for a fourth time while Brodeur, Fout, Clemson’s Jonathan Sunde and Wake Forest’s Garrett Drogosch were selected to the team for the third time in their careers.