Five Golden Gopher wrestlers
- Justin Bronson, Jeremy Larson, Joe Nord, Tyler Safratowich and C.P.
Schlatter - have earned Academic All-Big Ten honors, the conference
office has announced. The University of Minnesota had 51
student-athletes in seven different winter sports receive the award for
the 2007-08 season.
For the Gopher wrestling team, Schlatter (Sr., Pre-Nursing, Massillon,
Ohio) picked up the honor for the fourth straight season. Larson (Sr.,
Spanish, Preston, Minn.) also earned the accolade for the fourth time
in his Minnesota career. Bronson (Sr., Kinesiology, Princeton, Minn.)
picked up his second academic award from the conference.
Safratowich (Jr., Construction Management, Park Rapids, Minn.) was
named Academic All-Conference for the third consecutive year. It was
the first career honor for redshirt freshman Nord (Education, Waconia,
Minn.).
Minnesota is scheduled to hold its end-of-the-season awards banquet April 6.