CLEVELAND – Gonzaga's Corey Kispert was selected as the 2021 DI-AAA ADA Men's Scholar postgraduate recipient, and was named to the Division I-AAA ADA Men's Scholar Athlete Team. The 10 winners of the 19th Annual Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association (DI-AAA ADA) Scholar-Athlete Awards presented by ARMS Software were announced by the DI-AAA Athletics Directors Association Thursday.
 
Kispert, a Master of Business Administration Student at GU, with a 3.79 GPA, will receive $5,000 towards postgraduate studies. He was also named to the men's DI-AAA ADA Scholar-Athlete Team for the second straight season.
 
Kispert was named the Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year. He was the West Coast Conference Player of the Year, and was also a Wooden and Naismith Player of the Year finalist. The Edmonds, Wash., native, was also named First Team All-American by the Associated Press, NABC and USBWA.
 
Basketball players from all Division I-AAA ADA member institutions are eligible for these prestigious awards. Each of the nominees is required to maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.20 (4.00 scale) in undergraduate study and have been a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletics credentials. Nominees must have participated in at least 50 percent (50%) of the team's games listed on the nomination form. To be eligible for nomination to the Scholar-Athlete Team, he/she must have reached junior academic standing at their institution (ineligible athletics transfers are NOT eligible).
  
"On behalf of the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association, it is my pleasure to announce the men's and women's Scholar-Athlete Teams for this year, in addition to those selected to receive postgraduate scholarship awards," stated Division I-AAA ADA President, I-AAA Scholar-Athlete Team Selection Committee Chair and Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics at Bradley University, Chris Reynolds. "In a year unlike any other, it is important to recognize these student-athletes who go above and beyond within our division. We applaud these young men and women for the commitment and dedication they have shown in what it means to be a student-athlete; especially in these unprecedented times."
 
Last year, Kispert earned the Division I-AAA ADA Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor. Receiving this year's male honoree is Nevin Zink, an economic/finance major from USC Upstate, who maintains a 4.0 GPA.
 
A special Review Committee of Division I-AAA Athletics Directors were responsible for selecting the winners. The 2021 Review Committee consisted of: Chris Reynolds (Committee Chair), Bradley University; Chasse Conque, UTRGV; Irma Garcia, St. Francis College Brooklyn; Phil Hutcheson, Lipscomb University; Robert Lineburg, Radford University; Joan McDermott, University of San Francisco; Marianne Reilly, Manhattan College; and Kenneth Siegfried, Cal State Bakersfield.
 

Men's Scholar-Athlete Team
Name	Institution	Major	GPA
Angelo Allegri	UNC Greensboro	Economics	3.23
Caleb Green	Fairfield University	Marketing	3.98
Cameron Krutwig	Loyola University Chicago	Entrepreneurship	3.45
Carter Hendricksen	University of North Florida	Sports Management	3.78
Corey Kispert	Gonzaga University	Business Administration	3.79
Ethan Lasko	Manhattan College	Business Marketing	3.3
Juston Betz	Bellarmine University	Accounting and Finance	3.97
Nevin Zink	USC Upstate	Economic/Finance	4.0
Souleymane Diakite	NJIT	Information Technology	3.58
Tate Hall	Loyola University Chicago	Business Administration	3.83