Knut Borsheim earns another academic honor
<p>Senior men's golfer <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/borsheim_knut00.html">Kn… Borsheim</a> has wrapped up his athletic career at Arizona State, but the academic awards keep coming is way. Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholars have been announced and Borsheim is on the list.</p><separator></separator><p>To be eligible for Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar status an individual must be a junior or senior academically, compete in at least two full years at the collegiate level, participate in 70-percent of his team's competitive rounds or compete in the NCAA Championships, have a stroke-average under 76.0 in Division I and maintain a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.2. A recipient must also be of high moral character and be in good standing at his college or university.</p><separator></separator><p>Borsheim finished his career by playing in 44 events (135 rounds) and had a 73.00 career stroke average with seven top-10 finishes. He finished tied for second at the 2008 ASU Thunderbird Invitational and also tied for third at both the 2009 ASU Thunderbird Invitational and the 2009 NCAA West Regional.</p><separator></separator><p>He earned first-team Pac-10 All-Academic honors in his final three seasons (2008-2010) and earned honorable mention All-America honors from both the Golf Coaches Association of America and Golfweek in 2009.</p><separator></separator><p>He also earned second-team All-Pac-10 honors in 2008 and 2009 and honorable mention in 2010.</p><separator></separator><p>Borsheim joins a select pair of Sun Devil men's golfers to earn CoSIDA Academic At-Large All-America honors. Chris Hanell earned first-team honors in 1997 while <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-golf/mtt/canizares_alejandro00.ht… Canizares</a> earned first-team honors in 2005 and 2006.</p><separator></separator><p>In addition to earning third-team at-large Academic All-America honors from ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA, he also earned the Pac-10 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's golf. The Pac-10 award has been established to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline, by Toyo Tires®. <a href="http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/w-golf/mtt/murcia_juliana00.html">J… Murcia</a> (women's golf) and Ryan Whiting (men's track and field) also earned Pac-10 top scholar-athlete honors in the spring.</p><separator></separator><!-- STORY AD BEGINS HERE --></p>