As jaw-dropping as Travis Hunter’s season has been on the soccer subject, his tutorial exploits at CU Boulder have been equally spectacular.
The junior from Suwanee, Georgia, is an anthropology main carrying a 3.798 cumulative GPA. Within the fall of 2023, Hunter earned a 4.0 GPA and adopted that up with a spring 2024 semester GPA of three.908, incomes him first-team All-Tutorial Workforce honors. Final yr, Hunter grew to become simply the second participant in CU historical past to be a first-team All-American and a first-team Tutorial All-American, becoming a member of Joe Romig.
On Saturday, Hunter grew to become the second CU Buffalo to take dwelling the distinguished Heisman Trophy awarded to the highest participant in school soccer and is the primary Tutorial All-American to win the Heisman since Florida quarterback Tim Tebow achieved the feat in 2007.
“Travis Hunter has been the epitome of excellence all season, and I’m so blissful to see his onerous work rewarded with school soccer’s iconic Heisman Trophy,” stated CU Boulder Chancellor Justin Schwartz. “Whereas I’ve marveled at his efficiency on the sector, enjoying each offense and protection, I’m equally impressed together with his efficiency within the classroom, the place he’s a devoted scholar and an Tutorial All-American. His constructive presence and the plain pleasure he finds within the recreation are a sight to behold. In all the things he does, Travis is a shining instance of what it means to be a Colorado Buffalo.”
Hunter’s dedication and focus that has propelled him to turning into one of the vital dynamic and electrifying school soccer gamers within the nation is similar dedication and focus that he’s delivered to his obligations within the classroom, the place excellence to him is equally necessary.
“Travis got here to Colorado with a champion mindset transcending the soccer subject to the classroom,” stated LaTonya Watson, affiliate director of teachers on the Herbst Tutorial Heart and Travis’s tutorial advisor. “Together with that mindset, he set excessive objectives and requirements that proceed to inspire him to be the perfect model of himself as he engages in his research. The Herbst Tutorial Heart employees is equally as happy with Travis’s tutorial accomplishments as his athletic accolades.”
Whereas Hunter’s scholastic achievements are within the highlight due to the Heisman Trophy, he is only one instance of many CU scholar athletes who’re acting at a excessive stage in competitors and teachers. Final semester, CU scholar athletes had the best semester GPA at school historical past at 3.182, whereas pushing the cumulative GPA to three.244, additionally an all-time excessive. CU additionally had its most convention tutorial awards at school historical past final yr with 178 and the best multi-year Tutorial Progress Fee in CU historical past, a testomony to how CU Athletics is making ready scholar athletes for achievement in life properly past their days competing.
Legacy Corridor, situated within the UCHealth Champions Heart, is the place all the trophies which were earned by CU soccer gamers through the years, together with the Heisman, are on show for posterity. A brand new Heisman Trophy will quickly be added to that spectacular assortment, however Travis Hunter’s accomplishments as each a scholar and an athlete have created a long-lasting legacy that can encourage CU college students and athletes for generations to return.