USD Football 2006

ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans

The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Football Team, selected annually by members of the College Sports Information Directors ofAmerica, honors the nation's best student-athletes. Just as the balancing of football and academics is difficult, the standards for nomination and selection to the team are rigorous. To be nominated, a varsity starter or key reserve player must have a minimum 3.200 cumulative grade-point average (on a 4.000 scale}. The program began in the 1950s with honorees in football ;later,basketball and baseball all-academic teams were added. Academic and athletics biographical data of nominees are prepared in ballot form and mailed to the CoSIDAmembership, who vote in each of eight districts. From the eight district teams comes a national ballot, distributed to the 1,400 members for the final all-academic team. "The achievements of these young men should truly be commended,"said NBC sportscaster Dick Enberg,spokesperson for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America team. In 2004 Evan Harney joined six former Torero gridders after being named First Team. The record-setting Torero running back carried a3.90 grade-point average as a Business Administration major. Below is a look at USD's other football players named as ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans:

Evan Harney Running Back 2004

Torero Success On The Field & In The Classroom

Da n Herbert Defensive Back 1981

Jeff Mansukhani Wide Receiver 1986

John Gomez Defensive Line 1988

Bryan Day Defensive Back 1987,1988

Doug Popovich Defensive Back 1994,1995

Jeb Dougherty Defensive Back 1995,1996

Philip Bretsch Defensive Back 2005

Nick Garton Wide Receiver 2005

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