LOGAN, Utah – Utah State senior wide receiver/kickoff returner Savon Scarver earned Athlon Sports Preseason All-America honors, announced Tuesday by the organization. Scarver, who was selected as a third-team specialist at kick returner, is one of just five players from the Beehive State to be recognized, joining Utah’s Devin Lloyd (second-team defense at LB) and Britain Covey (second-team specialist at punt returner), and BYU’s James Empey (fourth-team offense at center) and Jake Oldroyd (fourth-team specialist at placekicker). Joining Scarver in representing the Mountain West on the list included Nevada’s Romeo Doubs (third-team offense at WR) and San José State’s Cade Hall (fourth-team defense at DL). Scarver enters his final season with the Aggies known as one of the top return specialists in the nation having already been named a preseason fourth-team All-American at kickoff returner by Phil Steele, along with being a first-team all-Mountain West selection by Phil Steele and Athlon Sports, The native of Las Vegas, Nevada, is Utah State’s all-time record-holder with six-career kickoff returns for touchdown, which is the second-most in Mountain West history and tied for the fifth-most in NCAA history. Scarver’s next kickoff return for a touchdown will tie four other players for the NCAA record. For his

LOGAN, Utah – Utah State student-athletes earned a combined 229 academic all-Mountain West citations in the spring, as announced by the conference offices on Wednesday. The total represented the third-highest in the league as UNLV led the way with 243 and Colorado State followed with 235. The Aggies had the most honored among the MW in men’s cross country (19), men’s track & field (46) and women’s track & field (50). Utah State’s women’s cross country and women’s tennis teams each finished second in the league with 19 and eight honorees, respectively, while softball finished third with 18 honorees. Utah State was also represented in men’s basketball (9), women’s basketball (10), men’s golf (7), women’s soccer (25), men’s tennis (6) and women’s volleyball (12). The spring academic total is the highest in Utah State history, as sports that were typically awarded academic honors in the fall ended up playing abbreviated schedules in the spring. Those sports included women’s soccer, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s cross country. To be eligible for 2021 Spring Academic All-Conference honors, student-athletes must have completed at least one academic term at the member institution, while maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better.