June 2, 2011

Cal State Northridge senior Jeff Baxter was named to the 2011 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Men's Volleyball Academic All-Conference Team as announced by the conference office on June 1.

With Baxter's selection in 2011, the Matador men's volleyball program has now had 34 student-athletes awarded MPSF All-Academic honors over the past seven seasons.

To qualify, a student-athlete must have a 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average, must be at least a sophomore academically, must have completed one full academic year at their current institution and have competed in fifty percent or more of their institution's contests this season.

Baxter, a Kinesiology major from Simi Valley, Calif., earned MPSF academic honors for the third time in four seasons. Despite reaching the GPA standard in 2010, he was not eligible because he did not compete in fifty percent of Northridge's matches. This season, Baxter earned the first three starts of his career at setter and had 98 assists, nine digs and three blocks. He appeared in 181 sets during his Matador career and CSUN amassed a 77-46 (.626) record over his four seasons.

"We're very proud of Jeff's academic success," said head coach Jeff Campbell. "He's been a great leader for us on the court over his four years and he's proven that he can also be a leader in the classroom."

2011 MPSF MEN'S VOLLEYBALL ALL-ACADEMIC SELECTIONS

BYU
Kevin Sagers
Robb Stowell

NORTHRIDGE
Jeff Baxter

HAWAI'I
Jonas Umlauft
Nejc Zemljak
Sam Biscaro

LONG BEACH STATE
Ian Satterfield

PACIFIC
Florian Gornik
Patrick Tunnel
Adam Troy
Chaz Hindsley
Nicolaas Schenk

PEPPERDINE
Sean Pederson
Chase Ross
Tyler Jaynes

STANFORD
Jake Kneller
Brad Lawson
Jordan Inafuku
Gus Ellis
Evan Berry
Spencer McLachlin
Erik Shoji

UC IRVINE
Kevin Wynne
Dan McConnell
Cory Yoder

UCLA
Jeremy Casebeer
Thomas Amberg

UC SAN DIEGO
Carl Eberts
Mike Sierks
Joel Davidson
Chase Frishman

UC SANTA BARBARA
Trey Valbuena
Andy McGuire
Evan Licht

USC
Steven Shandrick
Murphy Troy
Tony Ciarelli
Riley McKibbin

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