ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T linebacker Bo Brooks (Canutillo, TX/Canutillo), who earned three All-America awards following the 2018 football season and was also a Google Cloud Academic All-America selection, has earned one additional award for his accomplishments as he has been named as the Scholar-Athlete of the Year in the sport by the Great Lakes Valley Conference. 

Brooks was named second-team All-America by D2Football.com, D2CCA and as a member of Don Hansen's squad following a campaign in which he finished with 87 tackles – second on the team – with an S&T single-season record 22 of them for a loss and 11 quarterback sacks.  Brooks ranked seventh in NCAA Division II in tackles for a loss and was 20^th in quarterback sacks as he became the second player in school history with at least 20 stops behind the line of scrimmage and 10 sacks in the same season.

A first-team all-conference selection by the GLVC, Brooks also finished the season with six pass breakups, three forced fumbles and a blocked kick and was a nominee for the Cliff Harris Award, which is given to the top small college defensive player in the nation.

Brooks, who was one of four Miners to earn All-America laurels on the field last season, was also selected to the Google Cloud Academic All-America team for the second consecutive season.  He is the second Miner in as many years to be named as the GLVC's Scholar-Athlete in football, following the selection of Deshawn Jones (Olympia Fields, IL/Rich Central) in 2017 and is one of four players in the history of the S&T program to earn All-America and Academic All-America honors in the same season, following Jones, Cole Drussa and Eivind Listerud.

Missouri S&T finished the 2018 season with a record of 10-2 – recording the third 10-win season in school history – and capped it with a victory over Minnesota State Moorhead in the Mineral Water Bowl in the program's first post-season appearance since 1950.