THE FLATS – Five Yellow Jackets have been awarded with academic all-conference honors the Atlantic Coast Conference announced today. Juniors Hiroshi Tai and Aidan Tran alongside sophomores Kale Fontenot and Carson Kim and freshman Albert Hansson were each named to the All-ACC Academic team, marking the sixth time in program history that at least five Jackets earned the honor, previously, in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2024.
This is the third academic all-conference honor for Tai, becoming the 12th Jacket in program history to earn the honor at least three times since the ACC introduced the academic all-conference team in 2006, 19 years ago. Academic requirements for selection to the team are a 3.0 grade point average for the previous semester and a 3.0 cumulative average during one’s academic career. In addition, student-athletes must have competed in 50 percent of their team’s contests and/or the ACC Championships and/or the NCAA Championships during the most recent season.
This is the second-career honor for Fontenot, Kim, and Tran and the first-career recognition for Hansson, who was named ACC Freshman of the Year after his first year on The Flats. He becomes just the second Jacket to achieve both freshman of the year and academic all-conference honors in the same season, joining Noah Norton (2018) on the prestigious list.
All five members of the academic all-conference team are majoring in Business Administration from the Scheller College of Business.
Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.
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