NCAA Champion Ducks are Academic All-Americans as Well, Aug. 13

UO release – EUGENE, Ore. – For a second-consecutive year, Carmela Cardama Baez headlines a trio of UO selections to the CoSIDA Academic All-America teams as announced Thursday morning. Cardama Baez earned a spot on the first team while fellow NCAA champions from this past season Cole Hocker and Cooper Teare were voted on to the second team. With Thursday’s announcement, Hocker and Teare become the 38th and 39th Academic All-Americans in program history. Overall, the Ducks have collected 59 Academic All-America certificates. Oregon, as a department, now has four Academic All-Americans from this past spring with Aaron Zavala (baseball) earning first-team honors in July. This marks the 10th time in program history the Ducks have three Academic All-Americans in one season. Oregon has also now had at least one Academic All-America performer in 21 of the past 22 seasons with multiple honors in 14 of those years.