Colorado State University Athletics
Horinek earns academic all-district recognition
11/10/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
Nov. 10, 2007
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Colorado State linebacker Jeff Horinek has earned first-team academic all-district honors from ESPN The Magazine and the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), the organizations announced this week.
The honor automatically nominates Horinek for Academic All-America voting, which will take place later this year. On eight occasions during Sonny Lubick's Colorado State tenure (1993-present), the Rams have had a football Academic All-American. CSU's last such honor was Eric Pauly in 2003.
Horinek, a 6-foot-2, 238-pound linebacker from Atwood, Kan., leads the Rams in tackles and ranks sixth in the MWC with 8.1 stops per game (73 total, 32 solo), entering this week at New Mexico. A health and exercise science major, he also owns a 3.90 grade-point average, and is expected Saturday to extend his consecutive-starts streak to 24 games. His last name is pronounced herr-INN-ik.
Colorado State competes academically in District VII against several Big Ten and Big 12 schools. The nation has eight districts.
