CSC Academic All-District Teams
 
GOLDEN, Colo. – Five members of the Colorado School of Mines men's soccer team were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) 2024 Academic All-District Team. John Burnett, Quin Collins, Caelin David and Marc Zimmermann all repeated their honors from a season ago while Gabriel Rodriguez earned the first honors of his career.
 
The 2024 Academic All-District® Men's Soccer Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. Student-athletes who meet both athletic and academic standards laid out by the CSC Academic All-America Core Committee will be selected to advance to the Academic All-America ballot.
 
Burnett, who carries a 3.654 GPA in Geological Engineering, was named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll this fall for the second time in his career and repeats as an Academic All-District selection. The senior from Windsor started 14 times in 15 appearances for 928 minutes this fall and scored once with two assists for four points, with three of hose coming on consecutive matches against Fort Lewis and Adams State in late October.
 
Collins, a First Team Academic All-RMAC honoree this fall with a 3.989 GPA in Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering, earns his third Academic All-District honors this fall. The senior started 15 times in 19 matches for 1,457 minutes and scored three times with two assists for eight points with his best performance coming against Adams State on October 27 in which he both scored a goal and assisted on a goal.
 
David sports a 3.897 GPA in Quantitative Biosciences & Engineering and was named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll for the third consecutive year as well as being an Academic All-District selection in each of those season as well. The two-year captain started 13 times in14 matches this season for 978 minutes and recorded an assist on senior day against Adams State. After missing most of the early going this season due to injury, once David returned to the lineup on defense Mines recorded three shutouts and allowed just one goal on four occasions.
 
Zimmermann, the 2023 RMAC Academic Player of the Year and CSC Second Team Academic All-American, carries a 3.920 GPA in Electrical Engineering. This season the senior from Orsingen-Nenzingen, Germany started nine times in 19 matches for the Orediggers and registered a pair of assists for two points. He attempted 17 shots with four on goal in his final season at Mines and played 904 minutes and repeated as an RMAC First Team All-Academic honoree this fall.
 
Rodriguez maintains a3.568 GPA in Mechanical Engineering and was named to the RMAC Academic Honor Roll for the third consecutive year in 2024. The senior from Richardson, Texas finished third on the team in scoring this season with four goals to go with three assists for 11 points. Appearing in all 19 matches with 18 starts for 1,156 minutes, he scored twice against #9 Point Loma on September 14 to lead Mines to their first win of the season and again on October 10 at Colorado Mesa, converting a late-game penalty kick for the win while he recorded all of his assists in consecutive matches against Fort Lewis and Adams State.
 
Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced December 10.
 
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