GREENSBORO, N.C. – Dawson Edwards (Durham, N.C.) and Gabe Proctor (Apex, N.C.) represented the Guilford College men's basketball team, repeating as members of the Collegiate Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District team, with Proctor once again being selected to advance to the national ballot for a chance to earn Academic All-American status, as announced by the organization on Tuesday.

In order to qualify for the honor in basketball, student-athletes must be at least an academic and athletic sophomore, maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher in the classroom. Meanwhile, a nominee must have competed in 90% of the team's total games played, or start in 66% of the team's total games. No more than four student-athletes may be a nominee in basketball per school, per gender.

Already the Old Dominion Athletic Conference's (ODAC) premier sharpshooter, Proctor blossomed into one of the nation's most-consistent scorers this season, finishing inside the national top-200 for total points with a 437 this winter, over 100 more than he netted as a junior despite playing in three fewer games. A linchpin in the Quakers starting five, opening all 26 games on the hardwood for GC, the Apex native completed the year ranked sixth nationally in total three-point makes, with 91, fourth in total three-point attempts, with 252, and third in three-point makes per game, connecting on 3.50, topping the conference across the board while all those ranks sat higher at the regular season's conclusion. Netting 16.8 points per game, second-most on the team and fifth-most in the ODAC, Proctor connected at a .375/.361/.817 rate with a his three-point percentage standing second in the league and within the top-75 among national qualifiers. On top of his scoring, the senior guard was within the team's top-five for rebounding average, at 4.2, total assists, with 49, and paced the Quakers playing an average of 27.2 minutes per contest to earn All-ODAC Second Team honors for the second-straight year. Academically, Proctor holds a 3.62 GPA as a Business Administration major. For his excellence on and off the court, he was selected as one of 54 players nationally to advance to the national ballot, doing so for the second-consecutive year as the lone ODAC representative in the running for CSC Academic All-American honors in 2026. The national ballot will factor in an athlete's academic and athletic achievement, in addition to their leadership on-and-off the hardwood.

Also, in his final season in Greensboro, Edwards thrived in the Quakers new up-tempo system, starting all-26 games for GC and cracking multiple national ranks. The graduate student finished in the top-100 in Division-III for both total steals, with 53 to rank 94^th, and steals per game, with 2.04 to rank 95^th, while also being arguably the ODAC's best pound-for-pound offensive rebounder, ranking fourth in the league and 170^th in the country in offensive boards, snaring 2.46 per game. Seeing a big jump in usage, Edwards finished fifth on the team in scoring, netting 8.8 points per contest while shooting .409/.362/.677, leading the Quakers in three-point percentage among those with at least 25 tries from deep. He also finished second on the squad in rebounds, averaging 4.9, assists, dishing, 66, and the aforementioned steals statistic, all while posting a team-best 2.44 assist-to-turnover ratio. Completing his second master's degree at Guilford, this one in the Masters of International Sports Management program after finishing his MBA last summer, Edwards owns a 3.95 GPA.

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