USD Football 2007

The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Football Team, selected annually bymembers of the College Sports InformationDirectors of America, 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 CoSIDA member– ship, 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,"

Wes Doyle said NBC sportscaster D ick Enberg, spokesperson for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America team. In 2004 Evan Harney joined six former Torero grid– ders after being named First Team. The record-setting Torero running back carried a 3.90 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: Torero Success On The Field & In The Classroom

Dan H erbert Defensive Back 1981

Jeb D ougherty D efensive Back 1995, 1996

Jeff Mansukhani Wide Receiver 1986

John Gomez D efensive Line 1988

D oug Popovich D efensive Back 1994, 1995

Bryan D ay D efensive Back 1987, 1988

Philip Bretsch D efensive Back 2005

Patrick O'Neill Free Safety 2006

Evan Harney Running Back 2004

Nick Garton Wide Receiver 2005

Wes Doyle Wide Reciever 2006

ESPN THE MAGAZINE ADACEMIC ALL-AMERICA Toreros elected to National Honors