June 7, 2011
Albuquerque, N.M. — University of New Mexico men’s golfer Travis Ross and skier Tor-Hakon Hellebostad were named Capital One/CoSIDA First Team Academic All-Americans, becoming the fourth Lobos this season to earn Academic All-America honors. Ross and Hellebostad are the first two First Team Academic All-Americans this season for the Lobos. Volleyball player Kelly Williamson and women’s basketball player Amanda Best were both named Third Team Academic All-Americans. Ross and Tor-Hokon are the seventh Academic All-Americans in the last two years for New Mexico.
Overall, the Lobos had 10 student-athletes earn All-District honors, and 21 over the last two years.
Tor-Hokon is a two-time All-American on the slopes who was named Third Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American in 2010. At the UNM Scholar-Athlete Banquet in May of 2011, he was named UNM’s Scholar Athlete of the Year. He is also a two-time Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Skiing Association Scholar-Athlete as well, and led the Lobos to a 4th place finish at the NCAA Championships this season. He is a native of Nesoddtangen, Norway.
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Ross graduated in May with a degree in finance, notching an eye-popping 4.11 cumulative GPA. He’s a four-time Dean’s list recipient who was named a Division I Cleveland Golf/ Srixon All-America Scholar for the 2009-10 academic year. He was also named a Mountain West Conference Scholar Athlete and Academic All-MWC last year, his first competing for the Lobos.
Ross was also named to the All-Mountain West Conference team and came painstakingly close to winning the Mountain West Conference Tournament Championship in May, losing in the third hole of a sudden-death playoff to UNLV’s Derek Ernst after three days of play.
He finished tied for second with a 6-under-par 71-67-69=207. Ross has finished in the top 25 in 12 of the Lobos’ 14 varsity events this season, with five top-10 finishes to his credit. Ross’ second-place finish at the Mark Simpson Invitational spearheaded New Mexico’s team title back in September.
| 2010-11 Capital One/CoSIDA All-Americans | ||
| Sport | Student-Athlete | Team |
| Men’s Golf | Travis Ross | First Team |
| Skiing | Tor-Hakon Hellebostad | First Team |
| Women’s Volleyball | Kelly Williamson | Third Team |
| Women’s Basketball | Amanda Best | Third Team |
| 2010-11 Capital One/CoSIDA All-Americans | ||
| Sport | Student-Athlete | Team |
| Men’s Golf | Travis Ross | First Team |
| Skiing | Tor-Hakon Hellebostad | First Team |
| Women’s Basketball | Amanda Best | First Team |
| Women’s Basketball | Lauren Taylor | First Team |
| Women’s Soccer | Kelli Cornell | First Team |
| Women’s Soccer | Jael Fanning | First Team |
| Women’s Volleyball | Kelly Williamson | First Team |
| Softball | Cassandra Kalapsa | Second Team |
| Men’s Track/Cross Country | Rory Fraser | Second Team |
| Women’s Volleyball | Jade Michaelsen | Third Team |