TOLEDO, Ohio – University of Toledo senior forward JT Shumate (Newark, Ohio) has been named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Men's Basketball First Team. Shumate is the first Rocket men's basketball player to ever earn first Academic All-American in back-to-back seasons and just the third Rocket ever in any sport. Dana Drew (Women's Basketball – 1994 & 1995) and Kate Bean (Women's Volleyball (2005 & 2006) were the previous student-athletes to do so.
Shumate possesses a 3.84 grade-point average in middle childhood education and is one of six student-athletes in the nation to be selected to the first-team squad.