Landin Mitchell was one of a school-record 27 All-Academic Excellence honorees.

Football 6/15/2021 10:30:00 AM Jeff Weiss, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Media Relations

Football Sets School Record With 51 GLIAC All-Academic Honorees

Football records most ever All-Academic Excellence recipients.

DETROIT -- Fifty-one (51) members of the 2020-21 Wayne State University football team were recognized with GLIAC (Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) All-Academic accolades, which ranked second in the league behind Michigan Tech's 52 honorees. The 51 recipients shatters the previous school record of 39 set in 2016 and equaled in 2019. Over the last 11 years, 364 Warrior football student-athletes have earned GLIAC All-Academic honors.

Criteria states the student-athlete must be an active member on the roster at the end of the season, and not a freshman or a first-year transfer student.

The school record 27 student-athletes receiving All-Academic Excellence Team honors for maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5 were graduate students Jake AmRhein (South Elgin, Ill.), Luke Bevilacqua (Lake Orion, Mich.) and Kyle Lewis (Detroit, Mich. / Renaissance), redshirt seniors Steven Glenn (Lincoln Park, Mich.), Landin Mitchell (Goodrich, Mich.) and Justin Rau (Flushing, Mich.), seniors Chris Carter (Lancaster, Ohio / Columbus Bishop Watterson), Taylor McCarty (Oxford, Mich. / Lake Orion), Lane Potter (Hudsonville, Mich.), Ian Sharp (Salem, Ohio / West Branch) and Spencer Stephenson (Midland, Mich. / Dow), redshirt juniors Cooper Kukal (Fremont, Mich.) and Reid Thompson (Fenton, Mich.), redshirt sophomores Chuckie Anthony (Muskegon, Mich. / Mona Shores), Noah Nicklin (Davisburg, Mich. / Clarkston), Kevin Skonning (La Grange, Ill. / Lyons) and Julius Wilkerson (Mequon, Wis. / Homestead), along with redshirt freshmen Damond Duncan (St. Clair Shores, Mich. / Lakeview), Jackson Griskie (Macomb, Mich. / Lutheran North), Darrin King II (Inkster, Mich. / Detroit Country Day), Frank Potenza III (Oakland Twp., Mich. / Rochester Hills Stoney Creek), Ty Potter (Hudsonville, Mich.), Kane Quinlan (Troy, Mich. / Birmingham Brother Rice), Drake Reid (Rochester Hills, Mich. / Rochester), Mohamed Saad (Dearborn, Mich.), Jarrett Short (Grand Blanc, Mich.) and Jay Solano (Trenton, Mich.).

AmRhein (Master's in Sports Administration) and Rau (Global Supply Chain Management) received their fourth consecutive GLIAC All-Academic recognition. Carter (BioChem & Chemical Biology), Kukal (Marketing), McCarty (Global Supply Chain Management), Lane Potter (Global Supply Chain Management/MBA), Sharp (Mechanical Engineering) and Thompson (Marketing) were honored for the third straight season, while Anthony (Marketing), Mitchell (Kinesiology), Nicklin (Finance), Skonning (Management) and Wilkerson (Psychology) were recognized for the second time in their careers. Duncan (Kinesiology), Griskie (Global Supply Chain Management), King II (Mechanical Engineering), Potenza III (Management), Ty Potter (Marketing), Quinlan (Marketing), Reid (Finance), Saad (Kinesiology), Short (Finance) and Solano (Accounting) are recipients in their first season eligible.

Bevilacqua (MBA) and Glenn (Kinesiology) each advanced to the Excellence team after three years on the All-Academic squad, while Stephenson moved up to the Excellence team after two years on the All-Academic squad. Lewis (Master's in Sports Administration) earned his first Academic honor after two solid semesters in graduate school.

The 24 football student-athletes named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team (cumulative GPA 3.0-3.49) were redshirt seniors Kenneth Cephus (Milwaukee, Wis. / Marquette) and Terry Sanders (Sterling Heights, Mich. / Stevenson), redshirt juniors Sean Banaszak (Kenosha, Wis. / Indian Trail), Will Butler (Novi, Mich. / Detroit Catholic Central), John-Paul Morris (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Nick Poterack (Byron Center, Mich.) and Joe Ziedas (Dearborn, Mich. / U of Detroit Jesuit), juniors Charles Ellington III (Dayton, Ohio / Vandalia-Butler) and Jacob Mass (Livonia, Mich. / Franklin), redshirt sophomores Kofe Kimbrell (Fort Gratiot, Mich. / Port Huron Northern), Nolan Kimmey (Farmington Hills, Mich. / U. of Detroit Jesuit), Niko Mosley (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Cameron Rogers (Riverview, Mich.) and Joe Wright III (Romulus, Mich.), sophomores Lukas Cusac (Pontiac, Mich. / Notre Dame Prep) and Koriante Moore (Flint, Mich. / Hamady), along with redshirt freshmen Jacob Edelman (Beverly Hills, Mich. / Birmingham Groves), Chandler Edwards (Norton Shores, Mich. / North Muskegon), Dayton Keller (Jackson, Mich. / Lumen Christi), Max Nicklin (Davisburg, Mich. / Clarkston), Evan Payne (Berkley, Mich.), Chrishoun Roberts (Garfield Heights, Ohio / Lakewood St. Edward), McKinley Underwood (Kalamazoo, Mich. / Central), and Kendall Williams (Farmington Hills, Mich. / Farmington).

Sanders (Special Education) was recognized for the fourth time in his career. Poterack (Construction Management) received his third consecutive GLIAC All-Academic recognition. Cephus (Nutrition and Food Science), Kimbrell (Criminal Justice), Kimmey (Marketing), Mass (Mechanical Engineering), Rogers (Kinesiology) and Wright III (Accounting) were honored for the second straight season.

Earning the award for the first time were Banaszak (Biological Sciences), Butler (Management), Cusac (Management), Edelman (Sport Management), Edwards (Electrical Engineering), Ellington III (Management Information Systems), Keller (Statistics), Moore (Sport Management), Morris (Special Education), Mosley (Mechanical Engineering), Nicklin (Marketing), Payne (Kinesiology), Roberts (Finance), Underwood (Accounting), Williams (Management) and Ziedas (Mechanical Engineering).

Wayne State shattered the previous mark of 206 Academic All-GLIAC honorees set in 2019-20 with 253 for the 2020-21 academic year. WSU has produced 1,694 Academic All-GLIAC recipients over the last decade.

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Players Mentioned

Chris Carter: Filmer; 6' 4"; Redshirt Junior

#89 Steven Glenn: TE; 6' 4"; Redshirt Senior

#15 Taylor McCarty: P; 6' 3"; Senior

#46 Justin Rau: DE; 6' 3"; Redshirt Senior

#2 Terry Sanders: DE; 6' 1"; Redshirt Fifth Year

#79 Ian Sharp: T; 6' 6"; Senior

#44 Spencer Stephenson: MLB; 6' 0"; Senior

#37 Joe Wright III: CB; 5' 9"; Redshirt Sophomore

#18 Jake AmRhein: QB; 6' 4"; Graduate Student

#60 Chuckie Anthony: C; 6' 1"; Senior

Players Mentioned

Chris Carter
: 6' 4"; Redshirt Junior
: Filmer

#89 Steven Glenn
: 6' 4"; Redshirt Senior
: TE

#15 Taylor McCarty
: 6' 3"; Senior
: P

#46 Justin Rau
: 6' 3"; Redshirt Senior
: DE

#2 Terry Sanders
: 6' 1"; Redshirt Fifth Year
: DE

#79 Ian Sharp
: 6' 6"; Senior
: T

#44 Spencer Stephenson
: 6' 0"; Senior
: MLB

#37 Joe Wright III
: 5' 9"; Redshirt Sophomore
: CB

#18 Jake AmRhein
: 6' 4"; Graduate Student
: QB

#60 Chuckie Anthony
: 6' 1"; Senior
: C