ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – St. Bonaventure men's basketball junior Jaren Holmes has earned a prestigious honor as he was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 1 First Team, officials announced Thursday.

First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second-and third-team (if applicable) Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in late May. Honorees are nominated and selected by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). 

A Sports Media major with a 3.63 cumulative GPA, Holmes is one of five District 1 (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont) players selected and the only Atlantic 10 player picked to any of the Academic All-District squads nationwide. Holmes is joined by Tareq Coburn (Hofstra), Caleb Green (Fairfield), Nicholas Kratholm (Niagara) and Tucker Richardson (Colgate) on the District 1 team.

Earlier this year, Holmes became the first student-athlete to play in the NCAA men's basketball Tournament after being published in PolitiFact. He co-authored two articles for the nationally known fact-checking organization. Holmes also helps produce a weekly student-run TV newscast, anchoring and creating news pieces for each broadcast. 

Holmes was a key member of the Bonnies squad which captured both the Atlantic 10 regular season and postseason tournament championships this year. He was honored as an Atlantic 10 Second Team All-Conference selection after averaging 13.8 points and 5.3 rebounds per game while starting every contest and playing nearly 33 minutes per night during his second season with the Bonnies. He turned in an effort for the ages when he poured in 38 points during a January win over Saint Joseph's, the most in a single game by any A-10 player this year. Holmes also posted a team-best 14.4 ppg during conference games.

He received Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team accolades for the second consecutive year as well, becoming just the third player in program history to be selected in multiple seasons and the first in over 15 years.

In two years with the program, Holmes has started 44 of 45 career games, shooting over 43 percent from the floor including nearly 39 percent from beyond the arc.