Justin Tubbs Named Freshman Academic All-SEC
7/19/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
TUSCALOOSA ?? Justin Tubbs, a guard on the University of Alabama basketball team, is among the 499 freshman student-athletes the Southeastern Conference named Thursday to its 2007 SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.
Making the honor roll required freshmen to have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above and be on scholarship or a letter winner. The list includes athletes from every sport.
Tubbs, a Trussville native, is majoring in engineering at Alabama and was a member of the National Honor Society while at Hewitt-Trussville High School.
He played in 28 of Alabama’s 32 games this past season as a freshman, averaging 3.2 points and 9.6 minutes a game. He scored a UA first-year best 13 points in 11 minutes against Alabama State, shooting a perfect 5 of 5 from the field. Tubbs freshman highlights also included scoring 10 points at Mississippi State and 10 points against Southern Miss and he had four steals in Alabama’s home game against Arkansas.
Mark Gottfried’s Alabama teams have now produced 19 Academic All-SEC players since his first season in 1998-99. Seventeen of those 19 were starters. Since 1999, he has graduated 20 of his 21 seniors, the exception being Bama’s lone 2007 senior Jermareo Davidson who is a semester away from graduation. Because of extreme hardship in his personal life last November and December??deaths of his brother and girlfriend within a month of each other---Davidson was granted a special personal hardship exemption from the SEC and NCAA to cancel his fall semester. Prior to that, he had been targeted to graduate in May 2007. In June he was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2007 NBA draft by the Charlotte Bobcats. Seniors in 2007-08 Ron Steele and Mykal Riley are on target to graduate by May 2008, possibly by this December for Steele who has also been an Academic All-SEC player. Steele would then begin work toward a second degree in January.
Other Tide student-athletes making the 2007 SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll include:
Baseball:Jared Avchen, Paul Howell, Brandon May
Basketball:Justin Tubbs
Women’s Basketball:Alyson Butler, Courney Strauthers, Tamara Williams
Football: Terry Grant, Charlie Higgenbotham, Charlie Kirshman, Greg McElroy, Milton Talbert
Women’s Golf: Helena Blomberg, Kelley VanDenburg
Gymnastics:Morgan Dennis, Ricki Lebegern, Casey Overton, Kassi Price
Softball:Charlotte Morgan
Soccer:Kelsey King, Grace Lawson
Women’s Swimming:Allyson Angle, Brooke Baldi, Hannah Brinks, Elizabeth Hughes, Julie Richards, Nicole Roberts, Elizabeth St. Charles, Shannon Van Hoy, Kacey Weddle, Maggie Zblewski
Swimming:Riley Boulden, Tim Cline, Aaron Fleshner, Kyle Lee, Clint McClendon, Sam Morgan
Tennis:Saketh Myneni
Women’s Tennis: Paulina Bigos, Nocile Briceno, Bianca Svensson, Alice Tunaru
Track:Emmanuel Bor, Gregory Hudgens, Michael Hughes, Alex Seiver, Cameron Sherrill, Brandon Spradley, Stephan Williams
Women’s Track: Rue Chitwood, Anna Day, Kimberley Laing, Katherine Strickland
Volleyball:Calli Johnson, Jennifer Weber
