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Muhlenberg’s First-Team Academic All-Americans year name sport 1970 Ed Salo Football 1971 Ed Salo Football 1972 Ed Salo Football 1975 Keith Ordemann Football 1979 Greg Campisi Basketball 1980 Art Scavone Football 1981 Dan Barletta Basketball 1984 GloriaAnn Hardy Field Hockey 1984 GloriaAnn Hardy Softball 1985 GloriaAnn Hardy Field Hockey 1986 Ilyse O’Desky Tennis 1987 Andrea Dowhower Field Hockey 1989 Joe Zeszotarski Football 1990 Mike Hoffman Football 1999 Celina Boer Soccer 2002 David Vassilaros Soccer 2006 Jason Finkelstein Track & Field 2009 Jake Floyd Football 2010 Bobby Torphy Track & Field 2011 Spencer Liddic Basketball

Saturday, Muhlenberg’s Spencer Liddic broke a single-season scoring record that had stood for 40 years.

Tuesday, the junior captain accomplished something that had not been done by a Mule in 30 years when he was named to the Capital One Academic All-America Men’s Basketball first team, as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Liddic became the 20th first-team academic honoree in Muhlenberg athletics history, but only the third Mule basketball player, and the first since Dan Barletta in 1981, to be named to the first team.

A double major in business administration and finance, Liddic was also named first-team Academic All-District this season after garnering second-team honors last year.

On top of being named to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll, Liddic is a two-time member of the Lehigh Valley Small College Basketball Scholar-Athlete Team.

Liddic, who is spending this semester interning with a Bethlehem-based financial firm, said he plans on pursuing a career in finance upon graduation from Muhlenberg.

But before he turns his attention to his business career, Liddic still has another season to get back to business assaulting the Muhlenberg record books.

The power forward led the Mules in both scoring and rebounding this past season. He currently sits in 15th place on the school’s all-time scoring list with 1,221 points and ranks 16th in CC history with 712 career rebounds.