Red Raiders Earn Spots on All-Academic Team
November 09, 2000 | Football
Nov. 9, 2000
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech placed seven football team members on the Verizon All-Academic District VI Football Team, announced today by the Verizon All-Academic committee.
Representing the Red Raiders on the first team are receiver King Scovell (Dallas, Texas), offensive lineman Kyle Sanders (Monahans, Texas) and defensive lineman Robert Wyatt (Duncanville, Texas). Sanders joins Southern Miss' Jeff Kelly and Oklahoma State's Kyle Eaton as the only players on the first team with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Scovell checks in with a 3.276 GPA in finance, while Wyatt has a 3.423 GPA in restaurant, hotel institutional management.
Red Raider quarterback Kliff Kingsbury (New Braunfels, Texas) leads Tech on the second team. Kingsbury is a management major with a 3.647 GPA. Joining the Tech signal caller on the second-team offense are receiver Peter Abrigg (Abilene, Texas) and deep snapper Robert Monroe (Corpus Christi, Texas). Abrigg has a 3.369 GPA in construction technology, while Monroe has a 3.891 in accounting.
Defensively on the second team, defensive back Paul McClendon (Stamford, Texas) represents the Red Raiders. McClendon has a 3.386 GPA in management information systems.
Sanders and Monroe are currently enrolled in graduate school.