Leveille, Mitchell top men's Academic All-Americas
Lacrosse player Mike Leveille of Syracuse and swimmer Josh Mitchell of Kenyon College lead the 2007-08 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America teams for men's at-large sports.
The awards are selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Leveille is the university division Academic All-America of the Year. Mitchell is the college division honoree. The Men's At-Large program for the Academic All-America program includes the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.
Leveille helped Syracuse to the NCAA men's lacrosse title. He has a 3.87 grade point average in accounting. Also on the University Division first team are golfers Drew Allenspach (Indiana), Chris Renninger (Navy) and Joseph Sykora (Alabama), gymnasts Dylan Carney (Stanford) and Stephen Tetrault (Nebraska), Ice Hockey standouts Jeff Lerg (Michigan State) and Andrew Lord (Rensselaer), wrestlers Tanner Gardner (Stanford), Tyler McCormick (Missouri) and Eric Tannenbaum (Michigan) along with UCLA's Matheiu Dehaine (Tennis), Navy's Eric Gardiner (Water Polo), Stanford's Sandy Hohener (Water Polo) and Florida's Kevin Nead (Swimming).
Mitchell won six events and finishing second in a seventh to lead Kenyon the NCAA Division III swimming national championship. He is a 15-time All-American and 11-time national champion, and has a 3.89 grade point average in biochemistry.
Joining Mitchell on the College Division Academic All-America first team are Western New England's Travis Brown (Lacrosse), Gustavus Adolphus' Andy Bryan (Tennis), Missouri Science & Technology's Mark Chamberlain (Swimming), Embry-Riddle's Mislav Hizak (Tennis), Alaska-Fairbanks' Marius Korthauer (Skiing), Emory's Nicholas Lake (Swimming), Olivet's Dustin Meisner (Swimming), Rensselaer's Michael Milligan (Swimming), Shenandoah's Theodore Rogers (Lacrosse), John Carroll's Paul Schroder (Golf), Greensboro's David Sutton (Tennis), Maryville's (Mo.) Tyler Tate (Tennis), Wheaton's (Ill.) Josh Williams (Tennis) and Alaska-Anchorage's Raphael Wunderle (Skiing).
