Football Student-Athletes Named First-Team Academic All-District
Two members of the Wittenberg football team have been selected to the 2003 CoSIDA Academic All-District IV College Division Football Team.
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Chad Thompson
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Skip Ivery
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Two members of the Wittenberg football
team have been selected to the 2003 CoSIDA Academic All-District IV
College Division Football Team. Wide receiver Skip Ivery, a senior
management major from Columbus, Ohio, made the first team for a
second straight year, and offensive lineman Chad Thompson, a senior
psychology major from Ft. Thomas, Ky., moved up from second team in
2002 to first-team in 2003.
Ivery, who carries a 3.8 grade point average, also earned
second-team Academic All-District for track and field/cross country
in 2002 and second-team Academic All-America for track and
field/cross country in 2003. He has won five North Coast Athletic
Conference individual hurdles championships (two indoor, three
outdoor), and in 2003 he became the first Wittenberg athlete in 39
years to win an individual national championship when he finished
first in the 110-meter hurdles at the NCAA Division III Outdoor
Track and Field Championships in St. Lawrence, N.Y.
On the football field, Ivery will earn a fourth varsity
letter this season, his third as a starter. He has 36 receptions,
second-most on the team, 670 yards and 10 touchdown, both of which
rank first on the team. A first-team All-NCAC and third-team
All-North Region honoree in 2002, Ivery ranks third in school
history with 124 career receptions and 1,898 yards.
Thompson, who carries a 3.74 GPA, is a three-year starter and
four-year letterwinner, and he has been a key member of an
offensive unit that has ranked first or second in the NCAC in total
yards and total points each of the last four years. He was a
first-team All-NCAC, second-team All-North Region and second-team
Hewlett Packard All-America honoree in 2002.
Ivery and Thompson are two of nine seniors on a Tiger
football team that is 7-2 overall and 3-2 in the NCAC with one game
remaining in the 2003 season.
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA)
selects Academic All-America teams in 12 programs: football,
women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball,
women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's track &
field/cross country, women's track & field/cross country, men's
at-large and women's at-large. A first team, second team and third
team are selected in both the University (Division I and I-AA) and
College (Division II, III and NAIA) Divisions. Football consists of
just first and second teams.
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