LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Aidan Fearn, Brady Long, Cole Messick and Justin Wescoat have been named United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Division I Scholar All-Americans, the organization announced Tuesday.
 
Bellarmine also earned the USILA Team Academic Award for achieving a team GPA of 3.0 or higher for the fifth straight season. Their 3.38 team GPA ranks as the second-highest in program history behind the 2020 team.
 
Notably, Bellarmine is one of just 16 Division I programs to boast at least four student-athletes on this year's list. Overall, 45 Division I programs carried at least one recognized player. Additionally, the four honorees matches a program record for the Knights, set last season.
 
Fearn, who was previously named to the Academic All-ASUN squad, graduated with a 3.52 cumulative GPA with a degree in economics. The Toronto native went 90 for 182 on faceoffs (.495) and picked up a career-high 40 ground balls to lead the team. Against Mercyhurst on February 8, Fearn won 22 of 26 faceoffs (.846) and set a Bellarmine single-game program record with 15 ground balls. His effort against Mercyhurst helped him become just the second Knight ever to be named to the USILA Division I Team of the Week.
 
Long appeared in all 17 games, starting 11, while completing his degree in sports administration with a 3.45 GPA. The defender started the first eight games of the season to give him a streak of 59 consecutive games started. A Mount Laurel, N.J., native, Long ranked fifth on the Knights with 29 ground balls and third with 13 caused turnovers.
 
A Cambridge, Md., native, Messick graduated with a 3.55 GPA in business administration while also winning a career-high 107 of 191 faceoffs (.560), ranking second in the ASUN. Twice in conference play he won a career-high 17 faceoffs, both in Knights wins. Messick also ranked second on the team with 39 ground balls and, like Fearn, earned a nod on the USILA Division I Team of the Week.
 
Wescoat earned First Team All-ASUN laurels while completing his degree in business administration with a 3.57 GPA. The Pottstown, Pa., native started all 17 games at midfield and ranked third on Bellarmine with 11 assists, fourth with 34 points and tied for fourth with 23 goals, each setting a new career high.
 
The four players, all seniors, were earlier named to the ASUN Honor Roll while Fearn, Messick and Wescoat each graduated with ASUN Honors for having a cumulative GPA above 3.50.
 
A total of 15 Knights have now been honored as USILA Division I Scholar All-Americans. This year's group joins Christian Della Rocco (2024), Tommy Fialkowski (2024), Denton Macdonald (2024), Kyle Playsted (2024), Benny O'Rourk (2023), Jacob Berggren (2023), Jon Robbins (2021), Eric Rubak (2021), Landon Trout (2021), Kevin Fahey (2018) and Colin Hart (2015). Thirteen of the 15 honorees have played under current head coach Andrew Whitley.
 
According to the USILA, the organization 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.
 
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