Fourteen Mustangs Earn 2025 1A FAR Academic Excellence Award

DALLAS (SMU) – Fourteen Mustangs have been named recipients of the 2025 1A FAR Academic Excellence Award. This award acknowledges these excellent student-athletes for his or her important accomplishments within the classroom whereas competing on the highest stage of faculty sports activities.
 
The Award is given yearly to student-athletes who graduate with a cumulative GPA of three.80 or above and have participated in at the least two years of NCAA intercollegiate athletics at a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) establishment.
 
The Award recipients, nominated by their establishments, are student-athletes from the ten FBS conferences and the FBS independents. The full record is accessible on our web site: https://oneafar.org/1a-far-academic-excellence-award. 
 
SMU’s 2025 1A FAR Academic Excellence Award Honorees
Angus Corbeau – Men’s Swimming & Diving
Emma Engel – Equestrian
Cotton Fields – Men’s Swimming & Diving
Anna Fina – Rowing
Abby Hampton – Women’s Soccer
Hensley Humphries – Equestrian
Grace Knudson – Rowing  
Jentry Lamirand – Volleyball
Ellie Lewis – Rowing
Nikoleta Rafailaki – Cross Country/Track & Field
Tiffanie Ruan – Women’s Swimming & Diving
Kendall Saeger – Track & Field
Alex Stafford – Men’s Tennis
Flora Tissier – Cross Country/Track & Field