Metzler Named Academic All-MVFC; Four Guins Honored
12/5/2023 3:04:00 PM | Football
Youngstown State offensive lineman David Metzler was named first-team Academic All-MVFC the league announced on Tuesday. Earning Honorable-Mention All-Academic honors were FB/TE Jake Benio, OL Aidan Parker and DE Dylan Wudke.
Metzler is the first Penguin to be named to the first team since Grant Dixon which came during the spring 2021 season. The three honorable-mention selections were the most for the program since 2009.
Nominees must be starters or important reserves; must have participated in at least 50 percent of his team's games and carry a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.50 (on a 4.0 scale). Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or better both as an undergrad AND in graduate school.
Additionally, nominees must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their institution and must have completed at least one calendar year at their institution. True freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible athletic transfers are not eligible. Graduate students who are competing at a different institution than the one from which they earned their undergraduate degree are eligible even if they are in their first semester at the graduate institution. League sports information directors voted on the team by designating 11 players for first-team honors and 11 players for second-team honors.
