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Men's Outdoor Track - Blum Becomes First to Earn Back-to-Back Academic All-America Honors
Steve Blum became the first Coast Guard Academy student-athlete to earn back-to-back Academic All-America honors. (photo by Jeff Bartlett)
NEW LONDON, CONN.--(6/23/08)--Steve Blum, who graduated from the Coast Guard Academy last month, became the first ever Coast Guard Academy athlete to earn back-to-back Academic All-America honors as he was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America men's cross country/track and field College Division first team as voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
He becomes just the third Coast Guard student athlete to be named a first team Academic All-American, the first since Lis Bosma (women's basketball) in 2004. Bruce Melnick (football) also earned first team honors in 1971.
Blum, who had a 3.42 GPA in Civil Engineering, was a third-team Academic All-American. He earned third team Academic All-America honors last season.
Steve became the first athlete to win three straight New England Division III Decathlon championships this Spring. He earned All-America honors last season outdoors in the javelin with a 4th place finish and this year he finished 12th in the decathlon at the Division III NCAA Championships.
Blum was a member of the Dean's List every semester at the Academy and is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and the American Society of Civil Engineers academic clubs.
Steve was also a key member of the men's basketball team which won back-to-back New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) tournament championships and advanced to the Elite Eight this season for the first time in school history.
Blum was also a member of the NEWMAC All-Academic basketball and track teams for two seasons.
He was the only College Division athlete from New England named to the first team or second team.
