SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The Southern Conference placed two student-athletes on the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America Team it was announced Thursday (Feb. 23). Wofford senior guard Brad Loesing was named to the first team, while Davidson junior JP Kuhlman garnered third-team honors. The Academic All-America Team is selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Loesing, a senior from Cincinnati, Ohio, has started all 30 games at point guard for the Terriers this season. He is averaging 14.6 points per game and 5.6 assists per game. He is ranked third in the Southern Conference in assists, seventh in scoring, and first in minutes played.
For his career at Wofford, he has started a school record 127 of 129 games played. This week at UNCG he became the 42nd player in school history to reach the 1,000 career point milestone and he is also third in school history in career assists. Loesing is majoring in business economics with a 3.90 grade point average. He has been selected to Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's most prestigious liberal arts honor society.
The last Wofford student-athlete to earn Academic All-America honors was Lauren Bosshardt, who was named to the third team for women's track and cross country in 2008. Katon Bethay was the most recent Terrier to earn first team honors in 2005 for football. Greg O'Dell is the only other men's basketball player to be named Academic All-America, honored on the third team in 1992.
Kuhlman is averaging 11.2 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists this season. He was named SoCon Player of the Week Nov. 29, after scoring 21 points to lead Davidson to a 70-67 win at UNC Wilmington, and scored his 1,000th career point on a free throw in an 83-79 victory at Appalachian State Jan. 14.
The junior has played in 91 career games and made 62 consecutive starts. He has tallied 1,119 points, good for 30th on the Wildcats' all-time scoring list, to go along with 322 rebounds, 284 assists (15th at Davidson) and 88 steals. Kuhlman has scored in double figures 63 times in his career and topped the 20-point mark in six games.
He has a 3.80 grade point average in religion and plans to attend medical school after graduating from Davidson.
Kuhlman is the seventh Davidson men's basketball player to garner Academic All-America honors and the first since Derek Rucker earned first-team accolades in 1988.
To be eligible for Academic All-America consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.
Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports. For more information about the Academic All-America Teams program, please visit www.cosida.com.