Awards/Honors
Tom Hansen Pac-12 Conference Medal
A Conference Medal is awarded annually to each member institution's outstanding senior male and female student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership. In 2009, the Conference renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as Commissioner of the Pac-10.
Most Improved Student-Athlete Awards
Awarded to at least one underclass student-athlete and at least one senior student-athlete who demonstrated great improvement over his or her previous terms
Clancy A. Herbst, Jr. Student-Athlete Achievement Award
Awarded to a student-athlete who overcame personal, academic, and/or emotional difficulties to succeed academically while participating in athletics
Ceal Barry Leadership Award
Awarded to the student-athlete(s) who most effectively inspires his/her team and the Colorado campus and community through exemplary commitment, composure, and integrity
Byron R. White Leadership and Initiative Awards
Awarded to a freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior student-athlete who takes outstanding initiative and demonstrates a strong commitment to service to the CU and Boulder communities
Leadership Through Service Award
Presented to the team whose student-athletes have demonstrated a special commitment to participation in local community outreach programs (as determined by hours recorded and/or special circumstances).
The Morgan Family Buff Club Scholar-Athlete Awards
Awarded to the student-athlete of the sophomore and junior classes and the male and female from the senior class who have accumulated the highest GPA in their respective class. These are awarded by academic year, not year of athletic eligibility
4.0 Club
Awarded to student-athletes who earned a 4.0 GPA in Spring and/or Fall semesters
NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Award
The NCAA awards up to 174 postgraduate scholarships annually. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are at least in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition.
The one-time non-renewable scholarships of $7,500 are awarded three times a year corresponding to each sport season (fall, winter and spring). Each sports season there are 29 scholarships available for men and 29 scholarships available for women for use in an accredited graduate program.
All former student-athletes who earned an undergraduate degree from an NCAA member school are eligible to be nominated by that school for an NCAA graduate degree scholarship, regardless of when they received their undergraduate degree.
Pac-12 Post-graduate Scholarship Award
In 1999, the Pac-12 Conference created a Postgraduate Scholarship Program to honor and provide assistance for graduate study to outstanding student-athletes from its member institutions who also are outstanding scholars.
Each year, the Conference awards up to 24 scholarships of $9,000 each to student-athletes who have excelled academically and athletically, have completed their intercollegiate athletics eligibility, and have been accepted into a program of postgraduate study. Each Pac-12 institution can select two current or former student-athletes, one man and one woman, through its institutional selection process. Although each institution can determine its own method of selection, the mission of the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Program (whose focus is on “rewarding those individuals whose dedication and effort are reflective of those characteristics necessary to succeed and thrive through postgraduate study in an accredited graduate program”) should guide the selections.
To be selected for a postgraduate scholarship, a student-athlete must have:
• An overall undergraduate minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 (based on a 4.00 scale);
• Completed his/her final season of intercollegiate athletics eligibility in all sports or be in his/her final year of undergraduate study, having exhausted athletics eligibility in all sports;
• Been accepted to or already be enrolled as a full-time student in a graduate or professional program at an accredited institution, or in a postgraduate program for which an undergraduate degree is required for admission;
• Performed with distinction as a member of a varsity team; and
• Exemplified behavior, both in competition and beyond, in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution, and intercollegiate athletics.
Institutions may nominate former student-athletes who are within three years of graduation, in lieu of a currently-enrolled student-athlete. At the time of nomination, the student-athlete’s acceptance into his/her first graduate or professional program must be documented.
The student-athlete will be evaluated on the basis of all undergraduate academic work completed at the time of selection.
Google Cloud Academic All-America®, selected by CoSIDA
CoSIDA began the distinguished Google Cloud Academic All-America® program in 1952, and since then, has honored thousands of deserving student-athletes from numerous sports across all divisions with these elite Academic All-America® scholar-athlete honors.
Currently, CoSIDA sponsors Academic All-America® programs for men's soccer, women's soccer, football, volleyball, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball and men's and women's track and field/cross country. Many other sports are eligible through the At-Large program.
The Google Cloud Academic All-America® program is comprised of four divisional teams, with student-athletes being honored separately in Division I, Division II and Division III. The College Division team is comprised of NAIA, Canadian and two-year student-athletes. This format began in the 2011-12 academic year. Previously there were two teams — University Division (D1) and a College Division (all others).
Pac-12 All Academic Award
CU student-athletes have the opportunity to qualify for Awards and Honors. To be eligible for selection to the Pac-12 All- Academic team a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and be either a starter or significant contributor. https://pac-12.com/award/all-academicMPSF All-Academic Award
Student-athletes can qualify for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation All-Academic based on the following criteria:1. 3.00 or better cumulative grade point average.
2. Student-athlete must be at least a sophomore academically.
3. Student-athlete must have completed one full academic year at the institution prior to the season for which the award is being received.
4. Student-athlete must have competed in fifty percent or more of the institution’s competition in the student-athlete’s respective sport.
Campus Academic Awards
CU Student-athletes can qualify for campus academic awards as well.http://www.colorado.edu/catalog/2015-16/cmci/academic-excellence