ST. LOUIS -- LB Jack Cochrane of South Dakota highlights a list of 51 student-athletes named today to the 2021 all-Missouri Valley Football Conference all-academic team.  Cochrane was voted MVFC Scholar-Athlete of the Year by league sports information directors.

MVFC All-Academic Team (PDF)

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 3.20 (on a 4.0 scale). Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.20 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.
 

FIRST TEAM
Student-Athlete, School	Yr.	GPA*	Major	Hometown/High School
LB Logan Backhaus, SDSU	Gr.	3.66	Human Biology	Spirit Lake (Iowa) High
QB Nic Baker, SIU	So.	3.723	Finance	Rochester (Ill.) High
LB Adam Bock, SDSU	So.	3.944	Mechanical Engineering	Solon (Iowa) High
LB Jack Cochrane, USD	Sr.	4.00	Criminal Justice/Business	Mount Vernon (Iowa) High
LB Grant Dixon, YSU	Gr.	4.00	Business Leadership	Succasunna (N.J.) Roxbury High
OG ZeVeyon Furcron, SIU	Gr.	3.879	Kinesiology	Crest Hill (Ill.) Joliet Catholic
OL Wes Genant, SDSU	Gr.	3.906	Human Biology	Parkston (S.D.) High
DS Dalton Godfrey, USD	Jr.	4.00	Business Administration	Cedar Falls (Iowa) High
LB Jackson Hankey, NDSU	Gr.	3.636	Business Administration	Park River (N.D.) High
WR Dante Hendrix, INS.	Gr.	4.00	Business Adminsitration	Florence (Ky.) Randall K. Cooper High
WR Austin Nagel, ILS	Sr.	4.00	Political Science	Lemont (Ill.) High
P Brady Schutt, USD	Sr.	3.87	Medical Biology	Orange City (Iowa) MOC/FV High
WR Tony Tate, WIU	Gr.	3.675	Sport Management	DeKalb (Ill.) High
LB Zeke Vandenburgh, ILS	Gr.	4.00	Sport Management	Freeport (Ill.) High
OL Matt Waletzko, UND	Sr.	3.805	Sociology	Cold Spring (Minn.) Rocori High
DE Reece Winkelman, SDSU	Sr.	3.87	Business Economics	Marshall (Minn.) High
SECOND TEAM
WR Dennis Houston, WIU	Sr.	3.527	General Studies	San Antonio (Texas) Earl Warren High
OL Alex Jensen, USD	Jr.	3.87	Marketing/Business	Plymouth (Minn.) Wayzata High
OL Aron Johnson, SDSU	Sr.	3.828	Pharmacy/Interdisciplinary Studies	Chisago City (Minn.) Chisago Lakes
FB Hunter Luepke, NDSU	Jr.	3.42	Finance	Spencer (Wis.) High
PK Colt McFadden, YSU	Gr.	4.00	Business Leadership	Poland (Ohio) High
DT Eli Mostaert, NDSU	So.	3.733	Finance	Lakeville (Minn.) Lakeville North High
P Cade Peterson, UND	Sr.	3.929	Mathematics	Kewaskum (Wis.) High
K Jake Reinholz, NDSU	Gr.	4.00	Mechanical Engineering	Fargo (N.D.) Shanley High
QB Tommy Schuster, UND	So.	3.929	Operations/Supply Chain Mgmt.	Macomb (Mich.) Chippewa Valley High
DT Lane Tucker, NDSU	Gr.	3.857	Business Administration	Gillette (Wyo.) Campbell County High
TB Christian Turner, YSU	Gr.	4.00	Business Leadership	Cincinnati (Ohio) La Salle
WR Caleb Vander Esch, USD	Sr.	3.83	Communication	San Jose (Calif.) Willow Glen High

*Graduate GPAs listed for qualifying student-athletes

HONORABLE MENTION
Missouri State: WR Jordan Murray • North Dakota: OL Ben Christian, DL Chandon Pierre, RB Luke Skokna, LB Caden White, TE Adam Zavalney • North Dakota State: DT Costner Ching, TE Noah Gindorff, LB Cole Wisniewski • UNI: DT Tim Butcher, RB Tyler Hoosman, LB Spencer Cuvelier, LB Alfonzo Lambert, OL Erik Sorensen, LB Riley Van Wyhe, PK Matthew Cook • South Dakota: WR Carter Bell, PK Mason Lorber • South Dakota State: PK Cole Frahm, WR Jaxon Janke • Western Illinois: DE Hunter Mason • Youngstown State: DT Vinny Gentile