Two PBC Men's Basketball Players Named Academic All-District

Two Peach Belt Conference men’s basketball players have been selected to the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III team. Armstrong Atlantic State’s Patrick Sanou and GCSU’s Aaron Clark were both named first team and will both now be eligible to be named an Academic All-American. The squads are voted upon by the members of the College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) in the district, which includes all Division II, III and NAIA schools in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

Sanou is currently averaging a career-high 10.9 points and 5.7 rebounds per game while leading the Pirates and ranking third in the PBC in blocked shots, averaging 1.5 per game. A graduate student who currently carries a 4.00 GPA in liberal and professional studies, Sanou graduated last year with a bachelor's of science degree in biology with a 3.81 GPA. He was honored as his school's top graduate last year and Sanou was also the AASU's President Cup award winner in 2005-06, awarded annually to the top male student-athlete by the Savannah Exchange Club.

The Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, native was the first AASU men's basketball player to earn ESPN: The Magazine/Academic All-District honors in the Peach Belt era last year and is the first two-time basketball honoree - men's or women's - at AASU.

Fresh off a career-best 31 points last night , Aaron Clark picked up first team all-region honors, thanks his cumulative 3.70 GPA as a marketing major at GCSU. He’s the first GCSU men’s basketball player to earn this academic honor.

The 6-foot-10 center is 16th in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) in scoring at 12.8 points per contest, ranking second in rebounding at 7.9. The senior has had double-doubles in four of his last five.

GCSU athletics picked up a its first ever Academic All-American in soccer during the fall for junior Beth Coughlin (Douglasville, Ga.).

The ESPN Academic All-America team will be announced on Feb. 27.