LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association has announced its 2021 academic awards presented by Dynamic, and the Bellarmine team along with Jon Robbins, Eric Rubak and Landon Trout received accolades.
 
The Bellarmine team was one of just 30 DI squads to win a USILA Team Academic Award for 2020-21.  The Bellarmine team posted a team grade point average of 3.51 in the fall while accomplishing a 3.37 during the spring.
 
Robbins, Rubak and Trout, meanwhile, each earned a spot on the USILA Scholar All-American squad to join Colin Hart (2015) and Kevin Fahey (2018) as Bellarmine Knights achieving the distinction.
 
The USILA established the Scholar All-America program to recognize student-athletes from member institutions who have distinguished themselves academically, athletically and as citizens of their communities. A USILA Scholar All-American must be nominated by his coach and be a student with a senior year academic standing and a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (4.0 scale). He will have behaved in a manner that has brought credit to himself, his institution, and to college lacrosse both on and off the field.
 
All three of the Bellarmine recipients met the strict criteria by achieving a high academic standing while also earning All-Southern Conference honors.
 
Robbins, a business administration major who is on track to graduate with honors, finished the lacrosse season as the SoCon leader in caused turnovers per game with a 2.33 average.  He also ranked third in the nation in that category.  His 35 total CTs shattered the Bellarmine record for most in a season, and his 68 career caused turnovers rank second in school history.
 
Rubak, who earned a master of business administration degree in May, put an exclamation mark on his playing career by becoming just the third Bellarmine lacrosse player to earn All-America honors when he picked up honorable mention plaudits from USA Lacrosse as a long stick midfielder. Rubak established himself as a threat not only on the defensive end of the field, but also offensively. He totaled seven goals and three assists on the offensive end while registering 33 caused turnovers and scooping up 61 ground balls on defense. Rubak finished his career first on Bellarmine's all-time caused turnover list with 69 and is fifth all-time with 135 ground balls.
 
Trout, a sports administration major, was the Knights' top offensive producer with 20 goals and 13 assists. The 20 goals were tops on the team and the 13 assists tied Kyle Playsted for the team lead.  The 33 points on the season lifted Trout to 105 points in his career to become the second Bellarmine player in DI era to top 100 points in his career.

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