CMU Tops MAC With 17 All-Academic Picks
12/15/2015 12:00:00 AM | Football
Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - Central Michigan put a league-best 17 student-athletes on the 2015 Academic All-Mid-American Conference football team.
CMU junior quarterback Cooper Rush was named to the squad for the third consecutive season, one of nine players league wide to have made the squad three times.
Eight Chippewas were named to the squad for the second time. They are Joe Bacci, Mark Chapman, Ron Coluzzi, Josh Cox, Jabari Dean, Jesse Kroll, Jeff Perry and Anthony Rice.
CMU student-athletes named to the squad, listed with year, grade point average, and major: Bacci, junior, 3.27, integrated science; Nick Beamish, senior, 3.38, sport management; Chapman, sophomore, 3.55, undecided; Winslow Chapman, junior, 3.57, accounting; Coluzzi, junior, 3.40, marketing; Cox, sophomore, 3.32, sociology; Dean, junior, 3.30, health administration; Austin Doan, sophomore, 3.53, sport management; Kroll, senior, 3.69, exercise science; Alex Neering, freshman, 3.35, undecided; Perry, sophomore, 3.63, mechanical engineering; Rice, junior, 3.35, accounting; Kenny Rogers, senior, 3.32, exercise science; Rush, junior, 3.91, actuarial science; Mitch Stanitzek, sophomore, 3.75, undecided; Trevor Thomas, sophomore, 3.22, general management; Mike Zenk, senior, 3.21, exercise science.
To be eligible for the team, a student-athlete must maintain a 3.2 grade point average or better and appear in at least 50 percent of his team's games. True freshman and first-year transfers are ineligible.
Kent State ranked second in the conference with 12 student-athletes named to the squad.
