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A @TheSunDevils Tradition: A Leader In Academic All-Americans

Arizona State has a rich history of Academic All-Americans, and since the turn of the century is among the nation’s best.

Last year Amber Freeman closed out her softball career with first-team honors, while Ryan Burr (baseball) and Alex Harting (track and field) earned second-team honors.

In 2013-14 soccer players Jasmine Roth and Kaitlyn Pavlovich notched second- and third-team honors, while Bailey Wigness and Freeman notched first- and second-team honors for the softball team in the spring.

It all started with basketball players Art Becker (first-team) and Tony Cerkvenik (third-team) in 1962-63.

With all the numbers from 2014-15 now tallied, here are the updated numbers:

—Since 2000, ASU has had 73 Academic All-Americans, second only to Stanford’s 96 in the Pac-12 and seventh-best in the nation in that span.