15 Chippewas Earn Football Academic All-MAC
12/13/2016 12:00:00 AM | Football
Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - Central Michigan's Cooper Rush was named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference football team for the fourth consecutive year on Tuesday.
The Chippewa quarterback, a National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete, is one of two players on the 2016 squad who has earned the honor in all four years of eligibility. Kurt Laseak of Ohio was the other.
Rush is one of 15 Central Michigan student-athletes named to the squad.
Six of those players, Joe Bacci, Mark Chapman, Josh Cox, Jabari Dean, Jeff Perry and Anthony Rice, were named to the squad for the third time.
Three others, Winslow Chapman, Austin Doan and Trevor Thomas, were named to the team for the second time.
The players, their year, grade point average and major: Bacci, senior, 3.34, integrated science; Mark Chapman, junior, 3.37, communications; Winslow Chapman, senior, 3.52, accounting; Brandon Childress, freshman, 3.37, undecided; Cox, junior, 3.24, sociology; Dean, senior, 3.24, health administration; Doan, junior, 3.60, sport management; Luke Idoni, sophomore, 3.79, biology/biomedical sciences; Cooper Mojsiejenko, sophomore, 3.51, construction management; Joe Ostman, junior, 3.66, marketing; Perry, junior, 3.54, mechanical engineering; Rice, senior, 3.33, accounting; Rush, senior, 3.86, actuarial science; Devon Spalding, junior, 3.42, sociology/social and criminal justince; Thomas, junior, 3.33, general management.
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.
