Tyler McCormick Earns Academic All-District Honors
5/24/2007 12:00:00 AM | MizzouMade
May 24, 2007
Columbia, Mo. -Missouri two-time All-American Tyler McCormick (Leawood, Kan.) earned his second consecutive ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII Men's At-Large honor after finishing his junior campaign with a 3.95 grade-point average in business management. McCormick, Missouri's 133 pound starter, capped off his season with a sixth place finish at the 2007 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships.
One of 11 individuals from 10 different sports named to the District VII University Division, McCormick is now eligible for All-America honors. McCormick and Northern Iowa senior Nick Baima were the only two wrestlers named to the District VII first team.
A total of 83 men from eight different districts were named to their respective All-District first team for both their academic and athletic accomplishments throughout the course of the 2006-07 campaign. Only eight of these individuals were wrestlers. McCormick is one of six Big 12 competitors named to the all-district first team and one of two Big 12 wrestlers honored.
As a sophomore McCormick earned third team ESPN The Magazine All-America honors in addition to All-District VII first team accolades.
