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App State Student-Athletes Well-Represented Among Sun Belt Academic Honors

NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference placed nearly 3,000 student-athletes to the Commissioner's List and Academic Honor Roll for the 2022-23 school year. In addition, 140 student-athletes earned the 1A FAR Academic Excellence Award.

With a combined 223 honorees among the lists for the Academic Honor Roll (league-high 102 members), Commissioner's List (109 members) and 1A Far Academic Excellence Award (12 members), App State ranked in the top four among the 14 football-playing Sun Belt institutions.

The Commissioner's List honors student-athletes who earned a 3.5 grade point average (GPA) or better during the 2022-23 academic year, while the Academic Honor Roll honors those student-athletes who maintained a GPA between 3.