Southwestern Oklahoma quarterback Steve Day and West Texas A&M wide receiver Charly Martin were honored Friday as Lone Star Conference officials announced the league's football academic awards.

      Day, a junior from Edmond, Okla., has a 3.59 grade point average in Kinesiology.  Day guided the Bulldogs offensive, throwing for 2,561 yards to set the SWOSU single season record.

      Martin, a senior from Farmington, N.M., has a 3.85 GPA in graduate level Sports & Exercise Science. He has already earned his bachelor's in Broadcast Communications.  Martin became the all-time LSC receiving yardage leader this season and now has 3,613 career receiving yards, surpassing Central Oklahoma's Dee Dee Carter (3,357). He also holds the LSC career receiving touchdown mark, as well as the WT career and single-season receiving yard marks, the career receiving touchdown and career receptions record.

      The two were amongst 22 football players named to the LSC All-Academic Teams, which recognize both academic and athletic achievement.

      The All-Academic Teams are voted upon by the league's sports information directors. To be eligible for LSC academic honors, student-athletes need at least a 3.20 GPA and must be at least a sophomore. All qualifying student-athletes not voted to the All-Academic Team are then placed on the Commissioner's Honor Roll.

      Altogether, over 60 football players were honored through the league's academic awards program, including representative from all of the LSC's 13 football-playing member institutions.

      NCAA playoff participants Abilene Christian and WTAMU had two and three players, respectively, on the South Division All-Academic Team, while Eastern New Mexico added three, Midwestern had two and Angelo State one.

      Southeastern Oklahoma had four selections on the North Division All-Academic Team, while Northeastern State and SWOSU each added three and East Central one.

      With Day on the North Division All-Academic Team were teammates Evan Jarrett and Steve Thekona, NSU's Jared Homer, Joe Kok and McCoy Campbell, SOSU's Brandon McCain, Jerrod Temple, Jerome Hewitt and Jerrod Anderson plus ECU's Corey Dozier.

      On the South Division All-Academic Team with Martin were fellow Buffs Keith Null and Jared Brock, ACU's Matt Adams and Sam Collins, ENMU's Nathan Uland, Karlton Graves and Michael Carrasco, MSU's Michael Mejia and Marcus Mathis and ASU's Ian Ritchey.

2008 LSC Football All-Academic Awards

NORTH DIVISION ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM

        Player, Pos.                         Team                                        Year     Major                                   Hometown

      Steve Day, QB                     Southwestern Oklahoma State  Jr.        Kinesiology                         Edmond, Okla.

      Jared Homer, K                    Northeastern State                    Jr.        Elementary Education          Mustang, Okla.

      Joe Kok, P                           Northeastern State                    Jr.        Math Education                   Broken Arrow, Okla.

      Brandon McCain, QB           Southeastern Oklahoma State   Sr.        Criminal Justice                   Carrollton, Texas

      Jerrod Temple, TE               Southeastern Oklahoma State   Jr.        Occ. Safety and Health         Carrollton, Texas

      Evan Jarrett, LB                   Southwestern Oklahoma State  Sr.        Marketing                            Visalla, Calif.

      Corey Dozier, K                   East Central                             So.       Mass Communications        Tecumseh, Okla.

      Jerome Hewitt, KR               Southeastern Oklahoma State   Jr.        HPER                                   Gainesville, Texas

      Jerrod Anderson, OL           Southeastern Oklahoma State   Jr.        Business Management         Allen, Texas

      McCoy Campbell, DE          Northeastern State                    Jr.        Social Studies Education      Owasso, Okla.

      Steve Ihekona, RB               Southwestern Oklahoma State  Sr.        Business                              Edmond, Okla.

NORTH DIVISION SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Academic Player of the Year: Steve Day, Southwestern Oklahoma

NORTH DIVISION COMMISSIONER'S HONOR ROLL

Central Oklahoma: Lee VonTungeln, Jr., WR;

East Central: Cody McDaniel, Jr., C; Ryan McGuire, Sr., TE; Trevor Carpenter, So., DB

Texas A&M-Commerce: Elliot Jones, Sr., DB;

Southeastern Oklahoma: Brad Chesshir, So., LB; Zac Hale, So., DB; Welton Johnson, So., CB

Northeastern State: Shantel Mackey, So., LB; Kevin Smart, So., SS

SOUTH DIVISION ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM

        Player, Pos.                                 Team                            Year         Major                                   Hometown

        Charly Martin, WR                       West Texas A&M        Sr.            Sports & Exercise Science   Farmington, N.M.

        Keith Null, QB                             West Texas A&M        Sr.            Sports & Exercise Science   Lampasas, Texas

        Jared Brock, LB                           West Texas A&M        Sr.            Accounting                          Abernathy, Texas

        Matt Adams, PK                          Abilene Christian         Sr.            Biology                                Abilene, Texas

        Nathan Uland, LB                        Eastern New Mexico    So.           Finance                                Denton, Texas

        Ian Ritchey, LB                            Angelo State                 Jr.            Kinesiology                         Boyd, Texas

        Karlton Graves, OT                     Eastern New Mexico    So.           Political Science                   Brownwood, Texas

        Sam Collins, C                             Abilene Christian         Sr.            Mathematics                        Denton, Texas

        Michael Mejia, DB                       Midwestern State         So.           Biology                                Mesquite, Texas

        Marcus Mathis, RB                      Midwestern State         So.           Education                                Rockwall, Texas

        Michael Carrasco, WR                 Eastern New Mexico    Sr.            Criminal Justice                   Albuquerque, N.M.

SOUTH DIVISION SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Academic Player of the Year: Charly Martin, West Texas A&M

SOUTH DIVISION COMMISSIONER'S HONOR ROLL

Abilene Christian: Emery Dudensing, Sr., FB; Alan Jay Copeland, Sr., FB; Adam Myer, Jr., OL; Jody Walker, Jr., LB; Eric Edwards, So., LB;

Angelo State: Jason Watson, Sr., TE; Sam Tindol, Sr., WR; Pete Parker, Jr., LB; Terrell Lee, Sr., RB; Dylan Wiggs, So., P/K;

Michael McLeod, Sr., S; Nate Bayless, So., TE;

Eastern New Mexico: Tillman Stevens, So., DB; Jessie Poku, Jr., WR; Carlos Downey,Sr., OG; Timmell McFalls,So., LB;

Devin Sweet, Jr., OLB; TJ Cleavinger, So., OG; Dustin Bohannan,Jr., LB;

Midwestern State: Lance Calloway, Jr., C; Andy Tanner, Jr., WR;

Tarleton State: Brandon Johnson, So., CB; Dustin Washburn, Jr., OL;

Texas A&M-Kingsville: Timothy Byerly, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Jr., C

West Texas A&M: Mark Ford, Jr., LB; Matthew Manley, Sr., DB/H; Daniel Sherwood, So., OL; Brett Watson, Jr., DE