Barger earns CoSIDA Academic All-District honors

2016 Jun 6

Nolan Barger, a rising senior with majors in business marketing and finance from Clearfield, Pa., earned CoSIDA Academic All-District 4 honors on the association's at-large team.

Barger earned NCAA All-American honors for the second straight year, placing third at 165 pounds at the NCAA Championships. He capped his junior year with a 36-2 record, which pushed his career mark to 101-22 and made him one of six wrestlers in school history to reach 100 career wins. The business marketing and finance major started the year ranked second in both the d3wrestle.com and NWCA individual rankings and never left that spot, all while rolling up 31 straight wins to start the season, the second-longest winning streak in program history. He also notched tournament championships at the Ohio Northern Invitational, the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships and was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Budd Whitehill National Duals. He finished second at the NCAA Mideast Regional to earn his second national qualifier.

Barger is one of two Warriors to earn a slot on the at-large team since Joe Andrie (men's swimming) was selected in 2012 before going on to earn Third Team Academic All-American honors.

To be eligible for the Capital One Academic All-American award, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.

The Academic All-America program currently selects 12 teams at the University Division level and 12 teams at the College Division level. The program currently selects the following Academic All-America teams: men's and women's soccer, volleyball, football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's cross country and track, women's cross country and track, men's at-large and women's at-large.