2023 All-ACC Academic Team (PDF)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – Wake Forest senior defender Garrison Tubbs was selected as the Atlantic Coast Conference’s 2023 Men’s Soccer Scholar-Athlete of the Year and leads the 2023 All-ACC Academic Men’s Soccer Team, which was announced Thursday by the league office.
A native of Brunswick, Georgia, Tubbs was a finalist for the 2023 Hermann Trophy and earned First-Team All-ACC, United Soccer Coaches First-Team All-America and USC First-Team Academic All-America honors during the 2023 season. He became the fourth Demon Deacon to earn First-Team All-America and First-Team Academic All-America honors in the same season. Tubbs also was named ACC Defensive Player of the Year. Tubbs graduated following the fall semester with a bachelor’s degree in finance.
Tubbs was selected to the All-ACC Academic Team for the fourth straight season, the lone student-athlete on the 2023 team to earn the distinction four straight seasons. After the season, the two-time Wake Forest team captain signed an MLS Homegrown contract with DC United.
A conference-record 133 student-athletes earned spots on the men’s soccer All-ACC Academic Team. All 12 ACC programs are represented, with Pitt leading the way with 18 honorees. 2023 NCAA and ACC champion Clemson had 15 honorees, while Duke and Notre Dame had 14 apiece.
Fourteen members of the 2023 All-ACC Team, including five first-team honorees, were named to the 2023 All-ACC Academic Team. Ousmane Sylla, the winner of the 2023 Hermann Trophy and the Offensive MVP at the 2023 NCAA College Cup, earned a spot of the All-ACC-Academic Team. The team also includes 11 student-athletes who were chosen in the 2024 MLS SuperDraft, including the ACC’s top four picks: Wayne Frederick (Duke), Bryan Dowd (Notre Dame), Aidan O’Connor (Virginia) and Hosei Kijima (Wake Forest).
Duke’s Antino Lopez, Ruben Mesalles and Nick Pariano, North Carolina’s Riley Thomas, Notre Dame’s Paddy Burns, Bryan Dowd and Matt Roou, Pitt’s Guilherme Feitosa, Syracuse’s Noah Singelmann and Buster Sjoberg, Virginia Tech’s Conor Pugh and Wake Forest’s Chase Oliver each were named to the All-ACC Academic Team for the third time in their careers.
Academic requirements for selection to the All-ACC Academic Team are a 3.0-grade point average for the previous…
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