University of Northern Iowa senior golfer Brook Maher was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII Men's At-Large University Division team as selected by CoSIDA and announced by coordinating officials on Thursday.

For making the 10-member team, Maher, who has a 3.75 grade point average in pre-medicine, will now advance to the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration. The men's at-large team includes student-athletes from the sports of crew, gymnastics, skiing, fencing, ice hockey, swimming, water polo, field hockey, lacrosse, tennis, wrestling, golf and rifle.

Maher, a native of Monroe, Iowa, compiled a 74.8 stroke average for the 2007-08 season. He competed in seven events this season, completing 18 rounds. Maher's top performance came at the Weibring Intercollegiate, tying for fourth place after carding a low-round score of 68. He fired a low-round score of 68 at the Agua-Caliente Invite. He tied for seventh place at the John Dallio Memorial with a three-round score of 222. Maher recorded 14 rounds in the 70s and made the Dean's List all four semesters while attending UNI.

The academic all-district team honors student-athletes who excel both on the playing field and in the classroom. The awards are sponsored by and on voted on by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). District VII includes schools in the states of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Selections are open to student-athletes who have reached sophomore academic standing and carry at least a 3.20 G.P.A. The university division includes Division I schools.

District 7 Winners
University Division
Tyler McCormick, Univ. of Missouri, Sr., Leawood, Kan., 3.95 GPA - Business Management
Tyler Miller, Univ. of Wyoming, Jr., Greeley, Colo., 3.89 GPA - Geology
Spencer Liedl, Air Force Academy, Sr., Neenah, Wis., 3.81 GPA - Management
Tyler Ruegsegger, Univ. of Denver, So., Lakewood, Colo., 3.98 GPA - Business
Stephen Tetrault, Univ. of Nebraska, Sr., Lincoln, Neb., 3.74 - Mathamatics
Justin Raines, Air Force Academy, Sr., Knoxville, Tenn., 3.88 GPA -Systems Engineering Management
Brad Byars, Saint Louis Univ., Sr., Marion, Ill., 3.72 GPA - Business Admin. - Human Resource Management
Jacob Bryce, North Dakota State Univ., Jr., Glenwood, Minn., 3.85 GPA - Business Administration
Jack Hillen, Colorado College, Sr., Minnetonka, Minn., 3.44 GPA - Economics
Brook Maher, Univ. of Northern Iowa, Sr., Monroe, Iowa, 3.75 GPA - Pre-Medicine
Frank Schiavone, Air Force Academy, Sr., Oceanside, N.Y., 3.59 GPA - Management
Peter Malnati, Univ. of Missouri, Jr., Dandridge, Tenn. 3.99 GPA - Journalism