AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn senior Brandon Laubser of men's tennis earned a spot Thursday on the Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-District at-large team, the first step toward Academic All-America recognition.
He was one of 10 male student-athletes from District 4 competing in the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling to be recognized on the Academic All-District team.
On the tennis court, the senior from Johannesburg, South Africa, was a four-year regular for the Tigers, posting 66 career wins in singles and 44 wins in doubles, and helping Auburn post 48 team wins. Laubser's top Oracle/ITA national rankings came during his senior season, at No. 77 in singles and No. 38 in doubles paired with Tad Maclean; he and Maclean are the second alternate doubles team for next week's NCAA national championship field.
An honor student in accounting, he was recognized at the 2018-19 AUSPY awards as the top male scholar-athlete on campus with a 3.91 overall GPA. A nominee for the SEC scholar-athlete of the year and Academic All-America, Laubser has been recognized as an ITA Scholar-Athlete and an Academic Top Tiger and is a member of the SEC academic honor roll, the AD Honor Roll and Chi Alpha Sigma national student-athlete honor society.
Laubser will be listed on the national ballot for Academic All-America at-large honors. Those selections will be announced in June.
District 4 honorees were selected from all eligible Division I student-athletes at colleges in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Puerto Rico. Nominees must carry at least a 3.30 overall GPA and be in their second year at their academic institution.