AUSTIN, TEXAS - Four Bearcats earned academic All-American status as the College Sports Communicators (CSC) 2022-23 Academic All-America® Men's At-Large teams were announced on Wednesday.

Linus Jonsson, James Linn, Zeth Brower and Nicholas Paige all were named CSC Academic All-Americans for the first time.

Lander has now produced 11 CSC All-Americans since the 2020-21 season and now has 14 all-time CSC Academic Americans. 

A full list of Lander CSC All-Americans can be found HERE.

Linus finished tied for third place at the South/Southeast Regional, narrowly missing out on advancing to Nationals. Jonsson finished the season ranked 10th in the GolfStat national rankings. He led the Peach Belt in the lowest stroke average at 70.7 and was a first-team All-Conference selection and the Elite 16 winner. Linus won two tournaments with eight top-five and nine top-ten finishes in 2022-23. 

Linn, along with Paige, becomes the first members of the men's lacrosse team to be named CSC Academic All-Americans. Linn was named to the CSC Academic All-American First Team. He appeared in 17 games this past season while starting 14. Helping his team claim the program's first PBC tournament title, Linn caused 28 turnovers and is currently the program's leader in career turnovers with 57. 

Linn was also named to the USILA Div. II All-Region South Team, the PBC All-Tournament team, the PBC All-Conference First Team, the Inside Lacrosse Div. II All-American Preseason Team, the PBC Preseason All-Conference Team, the PBC Team of Academic Distinction and the CSC Academic All-District Men's At-Large team this past season.

Brower is a two-time All-American wrestler at the 141 weight class and was named to the CSC Academic All-American Second Team. This past season saw Brower go 33-2 overall where he picked up first-place finishes at The Citadel Open, The Midwest Classic and the 2023 NCAA Super Region II Championships. Brower finished fifth overall at the 2023 NCAA Div. II National Championships and was named the 2023 SACC Wrestler of The Year along with being named to the NWCA Div. II Scholar All-American Team.

He also became the first All-American and National Champion in the wrestling program's short history when he finished first in St. Louis, Mo., in 2022.

In his first season as the starting goalie, Paige posted an 11-3-0 record as he helped guide the Bearcats to their first PBC regular season and tournament title. Paige's 11 wins is tied for the most wins in a single season. He was named to the CSC Academic All-American Second Team.

Paige made a career-high in saves with 18 at Flagler to secure the regular season title. He was also named to the USILA Div. II All-Region South Team, the CSC Academic All-District Men's At-Large Team, the PBC All-Conference First Team and the PBC Team of Academic Distinction.

• To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. The cumulative grade-point average may NOT be rounded up to 3.50.
• Nominated athletes must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's games at the position listed on the nomination form (where applicable). In baseball and softball, pitchers must have at least 10.0 innings pitched. In track and field/cross country, a student-athlete is not required to compete in all three sports in order to be nominated. To be eligible, nominees must participate in 50 percent of the competitions that an institution schedules in either cross country, indoor track and field, or outdoor track and field. If an institution schedules multiple competitions on the same weekend (e.g., distance runners at one location, sprinters at a second location, field event athletes at a third), then the entire weekend counts as one competition for 50 percent participation purposes. In other sports, student-athletes who have not participated in at least 50 percent of their team's contests are not eligible.
• No student-athlete is eligible until he/she has completed one full calendar year at his/her current institution and been on a college roster in that sport for two years.
• In the cases of transfers, graduate students, and two-year college graduates, the student-athlete must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible. EXCEPTION: Graduate students who are competing at a different institution than the one from which they earned their undergraduate degree are eligible even if they are in their first semester at the graduate institution. Graduate transfers are only eligible for nomination at their current institution, unless they transferred and chose not to compete in intercollegiate athletics at their graduate transfer institution.
• Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or above both as an undergrad and in grad school.

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