Citron named men’s soccer’s first CSC First-Team Academic All-America®

12/10/2024 10:00:00 AM

By: Hayden Mangan, Assistant AD-Communications & Fan Engagement

AUSTIN, Texas – Fort Lewis men's soccer's David Citron has been selected to the College Sports Communications Academic All-America® First Team, the organization announced Tuesday at noon.

Citron becomes the first, First-Team Academic All-American in program history and the third overall alongside Third-Team selection Yannis Becker (2014) and Second-Team honoree Berekk Blackwell (2011).

A native of Toulouse, France, and Lycée de la Venise Verte graduate, Citron joined the Skyhawks as a sophomore last season after playing his freshman year at NCAA Division I Presbyterian College. In the classroom, Citron has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average studying Business Administration.

Earlier this fall, Citron joined Zane Wells (2009) as the program's second-ever recipient of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men's Soccer Academic Player of the Year award while also becoming the program's first-ever RMAC Summit Award Winner, an award presented to the student-athlete with the highest overall GPA at the conference tournament's final site of competition.

The five-foot-eight junior midfielder headlined Fort Lewis' offense this season, scoring seven goals and supplying ten assists for 24 total points, a mark that's good for the third-most points in the RMAC, the fourth-most in the south-central region, and the 38^th-most in NCAA Division II. In addition, his ten assists are good for the 13^th-most in DII.

In addition to owning two game-winning goals and going one-for-one in penalty kicks, Citron also twice went for five points in a single match, scoring two goals and handing out one assist against Lubbock Christian (Sep. 5) and South Dakota Mines (Oct. 11). He also had a four-point performance at MSU Denver (Oct. 27) with one goal and two assists.

In total Citron has started in 28 of his 44 career matches at Fort Lewis for 2,324 minutes, scoring nine goals and handing out 15 assists for 33 career points.

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