{"id":58531,"date":"2014-04-10T08:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=58531"},"modified":"2014-04-10T08:47:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:47:41","slug":"north-dakotas-mattson-gets-ncaa-elite-89-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2014\/04\/10\/north-dakotas-mattson-gets-ncaa-elite-89-award\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota’s Mattson gets NCAA Elite 89 award"},"content":{"rendered":"
PHILADELPHIA<\/b> — North Dakota’s Nick Mattson on Wednesday was named the winner of the NCAA’s Elite 89 award for academic and athletic achievement.<\/p>\n
The award honors a player who has the highest academic standing among those who reach the championship level in their sport.<\/p>\n
Mattson, a junior entrepreneurship major, has a 3.966 cumulative grade point average.<\/p>\n
He is tied for the North Dakota scoring lead among defensemen with 23 points in 39 games.<\/p>\n
The award is presented to a student-athlete at the finals site of each of the 89 NCAA championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North Dakota’s Nick Mattson on Wednesday was named the winner of the NCAA’s Elite 89 award for academic and athletic achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[729],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n