PROVO, Utah – Senior forward Nate Renfro has been named a CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 Team on Thursday.
 
District 8 is comprised of eight states in the Western region of the United States – Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.  To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average.  Nominated athletes must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's games.
 
First-team Academic All-District honorees advance to the Google Cloud Academic All-America ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced in mid-March.
 
Renfro was recently named to the West Coast Conference Men's Basketball All-Academic Team.  The senior from Tucson, Ariz., sports a 3.83 cumulative grade point average as a business administration major.  The Dons' co-captain posted a perfect 4.0 GPA in the fall semester.  This season Renfro is having a career year, he is averaging 7.2 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game. 
 
The CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 team also includes Sam Bittner (Fresno State), Brooks DeBisschop (Northern Arizona), TJ Haws (BYU) and Stephen Thompson Jr. (Oregon State).

For more information about the CoSIDA Academic All-America program and to see the 2019 Academic All-District Teams, visit CoSIDA.com.
 
The Dons will take on BYU tonight at Marriott Center at 6:00 p.m. PST, the game will be televised on BYUtv.