Football gets 16 players on MIAC All-Academic team

February 05, 2010

St. Thomas football had 16 players named to the MIAC Academic All-Academic Team. -- the most of any MIAC fall team. 

This elite academic award is given to sophomores, juniors and seniors with a cumulative 3.50 or better grade-point average. Recipients miust have played in at least half of the team's games.

UST had a conference-best three players make both first-team All-MIAC and Academic All-Conference -- Ben Wartman, Zach Sturm and Fritz Waldvogel.

Wartman was one of only two Division III players nationally to make first-team All-America and first-team Academic All-America.

"Honors like these are tangible reminders of the quality and overall commitment to excel in every facet of the student-athlete experience," UST coach Glenn Caruso said. "The types of kids we attract and develop here at St. Thomas are highly competitive young men who continually strive for greatness in everything they do. Their performance on the field speaks for itself. These young men are a part of a family that orchestrated the nation's biggest turnaround in placing UST among the country's elite as displayed by their top-five finish this season, and it is exciting to see that commitment and focus emanate into all they do."