Marcus Paige Wins Second Straight Skip Prosser Award

Marcus Paige will receive the 2016 Skip Prosser Award. The award is given to the Atlantic Coast Conference’s top scholar-athlete for men’s basketball.

Paige also won the award in 2015.

The only other two-time winner of the award was UNC’s Tyler Zeller, who won the award in 2011 and 2012.

In February, Paige was named to the 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-District team.

The Skip Prosser Award is named in memory of the Wake Forest coach George Edward “Skip” Prosser, who passed away on July 26, 2007. All of Prosser’s seniors at Wake Forest graduated. He placed nine players on the Academic All-ACC team in his six years in Winston-Salem. To be nominated for the award, a student-athlete must be an upperclassman with a grade-point average of 3.0 or better, both in his career and in the previous two semesters. Sixty percent of the award is based on academic achievement and 40 percent on athletic accomplishments.

Marcus Paige is double majoring in media and journalism/history. The guard was also named to the Academic All-ACC team for the fourth time. Freshman forward Luke Maye joined Paige on the Academic All-ACC team. To be eligible for consideration for the Academic All-ACC team, a player must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career.

On Monday night, Marcus Paige played his last home game at Carolina. After the win over Syracuse, Paige delivered an emotional speech that left many, including Coach Roy Williams, in tears.

Marcus Paige Wins Second Straight Skip Prosser Award

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