It seems football season comes earlier and earlier every year. A new season preview pops up on school websites almost daily and the NCAC hosts its annual Football Media Day Brunch and Golf Outing in two short weeks (Aug. 2).
Allegheny features a football story on its website today that really isn't about football, but about the life-saving efforts of one of the Gator gridders.
Junior Matt Cellini, the starting fullback for the Allegheny football team serves as a summer lifeguard at the Trumbull, Connecticut Beach Memorial pool club. Last week, he and his fellow staff members revived a drowning girl, who had been submerged under water for about 15 seconds. The girl was then rushed to the hospital and kept overnight for observation, but was considered in fair condition.
“It kind of goes along with what I hope to do in the future,” said Cellini, who plans to become a doctor upon graduating from Allegheny.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Monday, July 9, 2007
Wooster Grad to Line Up for Team USA
Wooster grad Rick Drushal has been logging lots of time on the football field despite finishing his collegiate career last fall.
Drushal has been picked as a member of the first Team USA in the sport of football. The squad makes its international debut in the 2007 World Championship of American Football tomorrow against Korea.
The six-country tournament will run through July 15 in Kawasaki, Japan. This year’s event is the third staged by the International Federation of American Football (IFAF). Team USA will also face Germany in pool play. The other pool will consist of host and two-time defending champion Japan along with Sweden and France.
The 45 players selected to the team were chosen from a pool of 2006 college seniors and represent all levels of college football. NCAA and NAIA schools were asked by USA Football to nominate up to two seniors during the season. That list was pared down by the Team USA coaching staff through film evaluation. Drushal was one of just nine Div. III players selected for the elite roster.
During his college career, Drushal was a three-time All-American offensive lineman, who tarted at left tackle for Wooster a school-record 42 games the last four seasons (2003-06). He earned All-NCAC honors four times, including first-team as a sophomore, junior, and senior, and was named to various Div. III All-America Teams. After the Scots’ perfect regular season in 2004 (10-0), Football Gazette tabbed him a second-team All-American, followed by honorable mention on D3football.com’s 2005 All-America Team, and as a senior, he was one of 18 Div. III players selected on to the Associated Press Little All-America Team and to the American Football Coaches’ Assoc. 25-member All-America Team.
Equally impressive in the classroom, Drushal was a member of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® First Team and a recipient of a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship this past year.
Since he last took the field as a Fighting Scot, Drushal has played in Mexico as part of an NCAA Div. III all-star team and at the National Football League’s Cleveland Browns’ rookie mini-camp.
Follow the championship action:
USA Football
Championship blog
Drushal has been picked as a member of the first Team USA in the sport of football. The squad makes its international debut in the 2007 World Championship of American Football tomorrow against Korea.
The six-country tournament will run through July 15 in Kawasaki, Japan. This year’s event is the third staged by the International Federation of American Football (IFAF). Team USA will also face Germany in pool play. The other pool will consist of host and two-time defending champion Japan along with Sweden and France.
The 45 players selected to the team were chosen from a pool of 2006 college seniors and represent all levels of college football. NCAA and NAIA schools were asked by USA Football to nominate up to two seniors during the season. That list was pared down by the Team USA coaching staff through film evaluation. Drushal was one of just nine Div. III players selected for the elite roster.
During his college career, Drushal was a three-time All-American offensive lineman, who tarted at left tackle for Wooster a school-record 42 games the last four seasons (2003-06). He earned All-NCAC honors four times, including first-team as a sophomore, junior, and senior, and was named to various Div. III All-America Teams. After the Scots’ perfect regular season in 2004 (10-0), Football Gazette tabbed him a second-team All-American, followed by honorable mention on D3football.com’s 2005 All-America Team, and as a senior, he was one of 18 Div. III players selected on to the Associated Press Little All-America Team and to the American Football Coaches’ Assoc. 25-member All-America Team.
Equally impressive in the classroom, Drushal was a member of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® First Team and a recipient of a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship this past year.
Since he last took the field as a Fighting Scot, Drushal has played in Mexico as part of an NCAA Div. III all-star team and at the National Football League’s Cleveland Browns’ rookie mini-camp.
Follow the championship action:
USA Football
Championship blog
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Channel Crossing to Support a Friend
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a story today about Brent McAuliffe, who is poised to become the first Pennsylvanian to swim the English Channel.
Inspiring story, but how is this related to the NCAC, you ask? While swimming the channel is a huge goal in and of itself, it turns out McAuliffe has an ulterior motive. He is swimming to raise funds and awareness for childhood friend, and former Kenyon swimmer, Marissa Boyan, who has been dealing with a brain tumor for nearly seven years.
We wish Brent, and Marissa, success in their efforts.
Inspiring story, but how is this related to the NCAC, you ask? While swimming the channel is a huge goal in and of itself, it turns out McAuliffe has an ulterior motive. He is swimming to raise funds and awareness for childhood friend, and former Kenyon swimmer, Marissa Boyan, who has been dealing with a brain tumor for nearly seven years.
We wish Brent, and Marissa, success in their efforts.
Monday, July 2, 2007
NCAA Woman of the Year
The NCAA announced the conference and independent nominees for the 2007 NCAA Woman of the Year Award today.
We were very proud to nominate Wooster's Katie Wieferich to represent the NCAC. Katie finished her career at Wooster this past spring as a five-time All-American and a five-time NCAC Runner of the Year (2007 outdoor track, 2006 cross country, 2006 outdoor track, 2006 indoor track, 2005 cross country). She leaves with the conference record in the indoor 5000 and outdoor 5000 and 10,000.
She graduated magna cum laude and made Dean’s List six semesters, while majoring in chemistry and serving as a tutor in that department. She also received the school’s Sisodia-Williams Prize in biochemistry, and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society.
The Top 10 winners per division will be announced next month and then narrowed to the top 3 per division in September. The Woman of the Year Award will be announced in October.
To be eligible for this honor, female student-athletes must have earned a varsity letter in an NCAA-sponsored sport and competed during the 2006-07 academic year. As well, each individual must have completed intercollegiate eligibility in her primary sport must have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 2.5.
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