Florida Tech Panthers Males’s Basketball Receives Nationwide Affiliation of Basketball Coaches Tutorial Excellence Award

panthers completed the tutorial 12 months with a crew GPA of three.06

BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – The Florida Tech males’s basketball crew earned the 2022-23 Nationwide Affiliation of Basketball Coaches Workforce Excellence Award when the NABC introduced its 2022-23 Honors Courtroom on Thursday afternoon.

Six Panthers have been named to the NABC Honors Courtroom for his or her efficiency within the classroom. Latest graduates George Nehma, Mekhii Noble, and Sean Houpt, together with present scholar-athletes Niall Harris, Stephen Merritt, and Elias Martin, earned the distinction.

Florida Tech completed the 2022-23 tutorial 12 months with a crew GPA of three.06. That is the second consecutive 12 months that the Panthers have earned the Workforce Excellence Award.

To earn the NABC Workforce Tutorial Excellence Award, establishments should report the GPAs of all scholar-athletes on the roster.

The NABC Honors Courtroom acknowledges males’s basketball scholar-athletes that excel each on the court docket and within the classroom. With a view to be named to the Honors Courtroom, a scholar-athlete should meet a excessive customary of educational standards.

The {qualifications} are as follows:

■ Academically a junior, senior, or graduate pupil and a varsity participant.

■ Cumulative GPA of three.2 or larger on the conclusion of the tutorial 12 months.

■ Member of a four-year establishment with at the very least one energetic NABC-member coach.

Incomes his second NABC Honors Courtroom recognition, Houpt earned his diploma in Sports activities Administration within the Fall of 2022 and commenced his MBA program in Spring of 2023.

He completed the 12 months with a cumulative GPA of three.54. On the court docket, Houpt appeared and began in 28 video games for the Panthers and led the crew in scoring after he averaged 21.0 factors per sport. He additionally averaged 4.1 rebounds per sport, 2.5 assists per sport and 1.4 steals per sport.

Noble earned his MBA in Spring 2023 with a 3.33 GPA. The Jacksonville, Fla. native appeared in 20 video games, together with 19 begins, for Florida Tech throughout the 2022-23 season.

He averaged 12.4 factors per sport, 6.7 rebounds per sport, and led the crew in discipline objective proportion after he made 57.3 % of his pictures from the ground.

Nehma earned his third consecutive NABC Honors Courtroom recognition after he completed his first 12 months of graduate faculty with a 3.66 GPA within the Aerospace Engineering program.

The Sydney, Australia native appeared in 16 video games and recorded 17 factors, 22 rebounds, eight assists, 5 steals, and two blocks.

Harris landed on the NABC Honors Courtroom for the second time in his profession after incomes his diploma in Aerospace Engineering with a 3.89 GPA throughout the Spring semester.

The senior appeared in 28 video games with 26 begins and averaged 11.1 factors per sport, 7.4 rebounds per sport, 3.3 assists per sport, 1.9 steals per sport, and led the crew with 1.4 blocks per sport.

Additionally being named to the Honors Courtroom for the second straight 12 months, Martin holds a 3.41 GPA in Ocean Engineering.

The Inexperienced Cove Springs, Fla. product appeared in all 30 video games with 25 begins and averaged 5.5 factors per sport, 5.4 rebounds per sport, and 1.3 assists per sport.

Merritt, a Pc Engineering main, holds a 3.54 GPA.

The Merritt Island, Fla. native appeared in 12 video games and totaled 13 factors, 16 rebounds, three assists, one block, and one steal throughout the 2022-23 season.

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