FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2-7-08

AASU's Patrick Sanou Earns First-Team ESPN Academic All-District III Honors

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Armstrong Atlantic State senior forward Patrick Sanou has been named to the ESPN: The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District III men's basketball first team for the second straight season, released on Thursday. Sanou will now have a chance to earn Academic All-America honors, which will be released on February 27.

Sanou is currently averaging a career-high 10.9 points and 5.7 rebounds per game while leading the Pirates and ranking third in the PBC in blocked shots, averaging 1.5 per game. A graduate student who currently carries a 4.00 GPA in liberal and professional studies, Sanou graduated last year with a bachelor's of science degree in biology with a 3.81 GPA. He was honored as his school's top graduate last year and Sanou was also the AASU's President Cup award winner in 2005-06, awarded annually to the top male student-athlete by the Savannah Exchange Club.

The Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, native was the first AASU men's basketball player to earn ESPN: The Magazine/Academic All-District honors in the Peach Belt era last year and is the first two-time basketball honoree - men's or women's - at AASU. Sanou joins GCSU's Aaron Clark on the 2007-08 District III First Team.

Sanou and the Pirates return to action this Saturday, February 9, as AASU visits UNC Pembroke for a 7:30 p.m. Peach Belt Conference game against the Braves.

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