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Olivet senior punter Ryan Anderson has been voted the 2016 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-American® of the Year for NCAA Division III Football.
This season, Anderson averaged 46.2 yards per punt, which currently ties the NCAA Division III single-season record. Fifteen of his punts landed inside the opponent's 20-yard line, and 18 punts went for more than 50 yards, including a long of 65 yards. The average also ranks seventh among all NCAA punters, regardless of division.
Anderson carries a perfect 4.0 grade point average in business administration. He is currently an intern at Northwestern Mutual.
A 2016 D3football.com Preseason All-American, he earned All-MIAA first-team honors for the second straight year.
Nineteen of the 49 members of the CoSIDA Academic All-America® football teams have a 3.90 or better grade-point average, with eight achieving a perfect 4.0 – Anderson, Salisbury junior kicker Alex Potocko, Concordia-Chicago senior defensive lineman Tim Bahr, St. John’s senior linebacker Carter Hanson, Elmhurst senior linebacker Andy Warsen and Marietta senior defensive back Corey Hunsberger on the first team, and UW-Stevens Point senior quarterback Kyle Larson and Wilmington senior defensive lineman David Henry on the second team.
Nine individuals are repeat selections on the CoSIDA Academic All-America® football teams, including two who repeated as first-team selections. Four first-team selections this year were second-team selections last year, two second-team selections were first-team selections last year, and one first-teamer was a second-team CoSIDA Academic All-America® team selection in 2014.
| FIRST TEAM | ||||||
| Pos. | Name | School | Yr. | Hometown | GPA | Major |
| QB | Gavin Glenn | Coe | Sr. | Adel, Iowa | 3.81 | Public accounting |
| WR | Brendan Lynch | Case Western Reserve | Sr. | Sarver, Pa. | 3.45 | Chemical engineering |
| WR | Soren Pelz-Walsh | Castleton | Sr. | Dummerston, Vt. | 3.99 | Physical education |
| TE | Travis Lankerd | Olivet | Sr. | Battle Creek, Mich. | 3.95 | Insurance & risk management |
| RB | Sam Benger (2) | Carnegie Mellon | Jr. | Hingham, Mass. | 3.65 | Business administration |
| RB | Duke DeGaetano | Whitworth | Sr. | Bend, Ore. | 3.82 | Psychology |
| OL | Cordell Boggs | Gettysburg | Sr. | Taneytown, Md. | 3.74 | Biochemistry-molecular biology |
| OL | Andrew DiFranco | Albion | Sr. | Warren, Mich. | 3.86 | Accounting (CPA emphasis) |
| OL | W. Tyler Reid | Carnegie Mellon | Sr. | Lees Summit, Mo. | 3.70 | Electrical & computer engineering |
| OL | Kyle Stucker | Wabash | Sr. | Franklin, Ind. | 3.82 | Rhetoric |
| OL | Elliot Tobin (3) | MIT | Sr. | Minnetonka, Minn. | 3.92 | Economics & management |
| K | Alex Potocko | Salisbury | Jr. | Clarksville, Md. | 4.00 | Physics / mathematics |
| DL | Tim Bahr | Concordia-Chicago | Sr. | Hartland, Wis. | 4.00 | Secondary education / math |
| DL | Michael Daniels | Augustana (Ill.) | Sr. | Geneseo, Ill. | 3.99 | Accounting & finance |
| DL | Brian Khoury (2) | Carnegie Mellon | Sr. | Davenport, Iowa | 3.49 | Electrical & computer engineering |
| DL | Jack Pietruszewski | Saint John’s (Minn.) | Sr. | South St. Paul, Minn. | 3.86 | Environmental studies |
| LB | Jack Campbell (2) | Johns Hopkins | Sr. | Chagrin Falls, Ohio | 3.88 | Biology |
| LB | Carter Hanson (1) | Saint John’s (Minn.) | Sr. | Blue Earth, Minn. | 4.00 | Global business leadership |
| LB | Andy Warsen | Elmhurst | Sr. | Wyoming, Mich. | 4.00 | Finance |
| DB | Conlan Aguirre | Hardin-Simmons | Sr. | Abilene, Texas | 3.89 | Math education |
| DB | Lucas Glomb | Saint John’s (Minn.) | Sr. | Woodbury, Minn. | 3.84 | Biology (pre-physical therapy) |
| DB | Corey Hunsberger (1) | Marietta | Sr. | Washington, Pa. | 4.00 | Petroleum engineering |
| DB | Jack Toner (2) | Johns Hopkins | Sr. | Western Springs, Ill. | 3.78 | Economics |
| P | Ryan Anderson | Olivet | Sr. | DeWitt, Mich. | 4.00 | Business administration |
| SECOND TEAM | ||||||
| Pos. | Name | School | Yr. | Hometown | GPA | Major |
| QB | Kyle Larson | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | Sr. | Clayton, Wis. | 4.00 | Pre-physical therapy |
| WR | Ethan Hoppe | Hendrix | Sr. | Highland, Ark. | 3.96 | Physics |
| WR | Nick Waldvogel | St. Thomas (Minn.) | Sr. | Mendota Heights, Minn. | 3.62 | Financial management |
| TE | Mitchell Boerm | Central (Iowa) | Sr. | Traer, Iowa | 3.76 | Biology |
| RB | Chandler Carroll | Chicago | Jr. | Alexandria, Ind. | 3.83 | Economics |
| RB | Austin Smestad | Washington (Mo.) | Sr. | Shoreview, Minn. | 3.94 | Chemical engineering |
| OL | Matt Fitchet | Mount Union | Jr. | Conneaut, Ohio | 3.55 | Exercise science |
| OL | Tyler Howlett | Texas Lutheran | Sr. | Orange, Texas | 3.80 | Accounting |
| OL | Cameron Little | Johns Hopkins | So. | Zanesville, Ohio | 3.81 | Economics |
| OL | Austin Mital | Lycoming | Sr. | Ginter, Pa. | 3.88 | Physics |
| OL | Will Pope | Worcester Polytechnic | Sr. | Middlebury, Conn. | 3.73 | Biomedical engineering |
| OL | Reese Setzer | Guilford | Sr. | Sanford, N.C. | 3.90 | Sport management |
| K | Tucker Cheyne | MIT | Sr. | Avon, Conn. | 3.52 | Computer science |
| DL | Craig Anderson (1) | Endicott | Sr. | Franklin, Mass. | 3.89 | Criminal justice |
| DL | Nick Egersdorf | Macalester | Sr. | Rochester, Minn. | 3.65 | Neuroscience |
| DL | David Henry (1) | Wilmington (Ohio) | Sr. | Wilmington, Ohio | 4.00 | Sport management wellness |
| DL | Ryan Winter | St. Thomas (Minn.) | Sr. | Woodbury, Minn. | 3.76 | Economics |
| LB | Matt Barnes | Monmouth | Sr. | Colfax, Ill. | 3.94 | Business / Spanish |
| LB | Ben Greener | Northwestern (Minn.) | Sr. | Foley, Minn. | 3.97 | Communication arts / literature ed. |
| LB | Derek Lotito | Norwich | Sr. | Swanzey, N.H. | 3.99 | Biochemistry |
| DB | Samer Abdelmoty | Carnegie Mellon | Sr. | McLean, Va. | 3.66 | Mechanical engineering |
| DB | Nick Kwon | Case Western Reserve | Sr. | Kaneohe, Hawai’i | 3.60 | Biochemistry |
| DB | Joel Reighard | Juniata | So. | Altoona, Pa. | 3.90 | Biology |
| DB | Sean Wetherell | Elmhurst | Sr. | Rock Island, Ill. | 3.76 | Accounting |
| P | Matthew Murray | Rose-Hulman | Jr. | Cincinnati, Ohio | 3.85 | Chemical engineering / math |
(1) CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division III 1st team selection in 2015
(2) CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division III 2nd team selection in 2015
(3) CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division III 1st team selection in 2014