The Lone Star Conference announced the 2009 men's soccer academic awards on Thursday, headlined by West Texas A&M senior midfielder Jacob Fynboe Jensen, who was named Academic Player of the Year.

   Jensen, a finance major from Horsens, Denmark, has a 3.93 cumulative grade point average. This is his third-straight LSC academic honor, in addition to being a three-time CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District team member. This season, he had two goals and four assists for a total of eight points. His four helpers were tied for the most on the Buffs, giving him the team lead in assists for the fourth consecutive year.

   Jensen led the 11-player All-Academic team, which recognizes both athletic and academic achievement.

   The All-Academic Team is selected by the league's sports information directors, who vote on the basis of both academic and athletic achievement. To be eligible for LSC academic honors, student-athletes need at least a 3.30 grade point average and must be at least a sophomore. All academically qualified student-athletes not selected for the All-Academic Team are then named to the Commissioner's Honor Roll.

   This year, the team consisted of three seniors, four juniors and four sophomores.

   Joining Jensen on the team were WTAMU teammates Nicki Nielsen, John Cox and Shane Taylor, Midwestern State's Tyler Murphy, Brian Sajjadi and Casey Hibbs, Northeastern State's Bo Evans, Zach Schmoker and Neven Vujinovic and Eastern New Mexico's Mychael Contreras.

2009 LSC Men's Soccer All-Academic Team

Player, Pos.                          Team                          Year      Major                      Hometown

Jacob Fynboe Jensen, MF West Texas A&M       Sr.         Finance                  Horsens, Denmark   

Tyler Murphy, MF                Midwestern State       Sr.         Biology                   Winfield, B.C.

Nicki Nielsen, D                   West Texas A&M       So.        Marketing               Oelholm, Denmark   

John Cox, MF                      West Texas A&M       So.        Engineering           Amarillo, Texas

Shane Taylor, GK                West Texas A&M       Jr.          Finance                  Keller, Texas

Bryan Sajjadi, F                   Midwestern State       Sr.         Finance                  Arlington, Texas

Mychael Contreras, MF      Eastern New Mexico Jr.          Business                Alamogordo, N.M.

Casey Hibbs, MF                 Midwestern State       So.        Economics             Brenham, Texas

Bo Evans, D                         Northeastern State    Jr.          Chemistry               Duncanville, Texas

Zach Schmoker, MF            Northeastern State    Jr.          Comp. Science      Catoosa, Okla.

Neven Vujinovic, F              Northeastern State    So.        Business Admin.   Hamilton, Ontario     

Special Recognition

Academic Player of the Year: Jacob Fynboe Jensen, West Texas A&M