Dayton Flyers

Kurt Huelsman was named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District team.

DAYTON, Ohio -- University of Dayton men’s basketball player Kurt Huelsman has been named First Team University Division ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV, it was announced Thursday.

A senior from St. Henry, Ohio, Huelsman is an Operations Management major.  He has started every game of his college career, a 121-game span that is the Dayton record and the eighth-longest active streak in the country.  The Flyers have won 84 games he has started in his not-quite four-year career.  He is second on the team in FG% (.542, 32-59) and blocked shots (16), third in rebounding (3.6) and averages 4.2 points a game.

Huelsman is a two-time team captain, UD Best Defender Award recipient and Macbeth Scholar-Athlete Award winner.  He is also a three-year member of Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

Also named to the all-district team were Marc Larson and Joe Jakubowski of Bowling Green, Zack Novak of Michigan and Cooper Land of Wright State.

Huelsman was also one of four players from the Atlantic 10 Conference named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District.  Duquesne’s Jason Duty, along with Yves Mekongo and Steve Wiengarten from La Salle, were named in District I.

Flyer women’s basketball player Kristin Daugherty was selected second team academic all-district.

The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District team is the first step in selecting this year's Academic All-America team. Everyone named to the district first teams appears on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America national ballot.

Covering all sports, at least one University of Dayton student-athlete has been named an Academic All-American for 26 straight years. Flyer head coach Brian Gregory was an Academic All-American in 1990 while playing for Oakland University.

The District IV teams are made up of student-athletes from Division I-A and I-AA schools in Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. To be nominated, student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve, and carry a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or higher. Team members are selected by a vote of members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) within the district.

Dayton is 15-6 overall, and hosts Xavier in an ESPN2 game Saturday at 12 noon ET at UD Arena.