Anthony Fields Named to All-ACC Academic Team
3/2/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
March 2, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest freshman guard Anthony Fields has been named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Team, as announced by the league office on Friday.
Fields, who has yet to declare a major in his first year on campus, is one of 12 student-athletes on the team. He is one of four freshman named to the team.
Fields has appeared in 22 games off the bench for the Demon Deacons in 2011-12. He is averaging 1.1 points and 1.1 assists in 9.5 minutes per game.
Fields is the eighth freshman in Wake Forest history to be named to the All-ACC Academic Team since the award's inception in 1963. He joins Jerry Montgomery (1968-69), Tom Wise (1987-88), Broderick Hicks (1998-99), Chris Paul (2003-04), Kyle Visser (2003-04), Gary Clark (2007-08) and C.J. Harris (2009-10) on the list.
Overall, Fields is the 20th Demon Deacon to be named to the team.
To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career.
2011-12 All-ACC Academic Team
Devin Coleman, Clemson
Jarrell Eddie, Virginia Tech
Anthony Fields, Wake Forest
Mike Gbinije, Duke
Nate Hicks, Georgia Tech
Luke Loucks, Florida State
Pierre Jordan, Georgia Tech
Mason Plumlee, Duke
T.J. Sapp, Clemson
Tanner Smith, Clemson
Andre Young, Clemson
Tyler Zeller, North Carolina
