Hayes and Newport Named Second-Team Academic All-Americans

     Two UW-Stevens Point athletes have been named Academic All-Americans on teams selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America and ESPN The Magazine.

     Senior wrestler Mike Hayes and senior men�s swimmer Garth Newport were both second-team selections on the men�s at-large squad that includes all NCAA Division II, Division III and NAIA athletes in the sports of fencing, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

     It is the first Academic All-American award for both athletes, who join baseball player Chuck Brehm this spring to give UW-Stevens Point three Academic All-Americans this season and 30 in school history.

     Hayes, a senior from Beaver Dam, placed third in the NCAA Division III at heavyweight this past season for his second straight All-American honor. He was 28-4 with 11 pins and three losses coming to the eventual national champion. Hayes, who also plays football for the Pointers, has been a scholar All-American by the National Wrestling Coaches Association the past two seasons and carries a 3.69 grade point average in Biology with a Chemistry minor.
 

 
    Newport, a senior from Berlin, was the conference champion in the 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard backstroke and also swam on two winning relays to help the Pointers to their seventh straight league title. He also was a member of the All-American 200-yard medley relay that placed seventh at nationals. Newport, who has a 3.94 grade point in Economics and Business Administration, won four career individual conference titles and six relay titles. Newport�s brother, Brent, was also an Academic All-American for the Pointers in 1999-2000.

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