Josh Angle Earns Academic All-America Team Member of the Year Award
CLAREMONT, Calif. - Senior guard Josh Angle of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's basketball team earned the Division III Academic All-America Team Member of the Year Award from the College Sports Communicators, the organization announced today.
The Academic All-America teams chosen by CSC (formerly CoSIDA) honor student-athletes who achieve high levels of success both academically and athletically. Angle, an economics and finance major at Claremont McKenna, was the NCAA Division III men's basketball player who the committee felt best embodied both of those traits.
On the court, Angle was a first-team All-SCIAC selection for the second year in a row, and also earned first-team all-region honors from D3hoops.com, which was also announced this morning. He was a second-team all-district selection from the National Association of Basketball Coaches last year (this year's awards are pending), and twice was named to the D3hoops.com Team of the Week.
Angle finished his senior season averaging 21.5 points per game on 52.8 percent shooting from the floor, including 45.0 percent from three-point territory, while also adding 5.0 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game. He began the season with a career-high 37 points as CMS defeated No. 2 Mary Hardin-Baylor, and also had 30-point games against La Verne (32) and Whittier (30), giving him seven games of 30 or more points in his career.
Nationally, Angle's 21.5 points per game ranks him 19th in Division III, while his 45.0 percent shooting from three-point territory ranks him eighth and his 3.0 threes per game ranks him 19th. He scored at least 14 points in every game this season, while his streak of scoring in double figures is at 49 dating back to last year. He went over 1000 points for his career (1100) despite only having 91 after his sophomore season, following a freshman year when he came off the bench and a sophomore year lost to the pandemic.
Academically, Angle is a Robert Day Scholar in the Claremont McKenna economics department, and will graduate this spring with both a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in finance. Despite studying in an accelerated program, Angle carries a 3.94 GPA, which ranks fourth among all student-athletes in the Class of 2023 at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, including second among students who have spent four years at Claremont McKenna.
Angle also provides in-class notes for several economics and finance courses for the disabled through CMC's accessibility services. He serves as a success coach to his schoolmates through the Dean of Students' office, providing peer-to-peer coaching, which consists of six 30-minute sessions per week to present training in time management, organization, and networking.
A year ago, Angle earned third-team Academic All-America honors, and this year, he not only elevated to the first team, but he was chosen as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year, the first Claremont-Mudd-Scripps student-athlete in any sport to earn that distinction.
"This is a tremendous honor for Josh and so well deserved," said head coach Ken Scalmanini. "He has a tremendous work ethic that he applies to all areas of his life. He simply doesn't take a day off, academically or athletically. He personifies the term Academic All-American as well as any student-athlete we've ever had, and I'm thrilled to see him get this sort of recognition."
To view the complete Academic All-America teams for all divisions, go to the following link:
2022-23 Academic All-Americans