Northwest Wayne News

Thirty-seven members of the 2024 Wayne State University football team have been recognized with GLIAC All-Academic honors. This marks the tenth consecutive year that the program has had at least 34 academic honorees. Over the past seven years, a total of 308 WSU football student-athletes have received these accolades.

The criteria for this recognition require that student-athletes be active members on the roster at season's end and not be freshmen or first-year transfer students. Grade-point averages are calculated through the regular football season.

Eighteen student-athletes were named to the All-Academic Excellence Team for maintaining a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5. Among them are graduate student Brayden Vredeveld, redshirt seniors Tyler Schompert and Charles Wesley, seniors Aaron Mass, John Rayba, Gus Taylor, Aidan Tweedy, and Draven Wilson, junior Ben Griskie, redshirt sophomores Ethan Gates, Gabe Mendoza, and Quincy Salter, along with redshirt freshmen Jaydon Bush, Justin Cox, Isaac Dawkins, Torrence Greene, Cane Mack and Tyler Swick.

Schompert was honored for the fourth straight season. Mass (Accounting - 3.52), Rayba (Finance - 3.82), Taylor (Management - 3.51), and Tweedy (Finance - 3.88) were recognized for their third consecutive year. Gates (Health & Physical Education Teaching - 3.88), Griskie (Global Supply Chain Management - 3.68), Mendoza (Management - 3.82), Salter (Exercise and Sport Science - 3.98), and Wilson (Computer Science - 3.94) received their second honor in their careers.

Both Vredeveld (MBA - 3.55) and Wesley (Exercise & Sport Science - 3.53) made it to the Excellence Team for a second consecutive season after two years on the academic team previously.

Bush (Criminal Justice - 3.50), Cox (Finance - 3.53), Dawkins (Management - 3.56), Greene (Mechanical Engineering - 3.62), Mack (Accounting - 3.68) and Swick (Radiologic Technology - 3.52) were honored in their first eligible season.

Nineteen football players were named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team with GPAs ranging from 3 to under-3:49: graduate student Jeremy Taras; seniors Owen Salingue and D'Marco Singleton; redshirt sophomores Joe Clark Jr., Colby Horn, Brayden McKenna and Nick Ostas; sophomores Nico Davis and Dahmir Farnum; along with redshirt freshmen Jaiden Acker, Jobe Benschoter, Rashad Boyd Jr., CJ Gordon, Jon Haygood, Jordan Hutchinson, Griffin Nowak, Will O'Brien PJ Sorce and XaVior Tyus.

Taras received his fourth consecutive GLIAC All-Academic recognition while Salingue was honored for three straight years alongside Singleton.

Clark Jr., Horn and Ostas were recognized for a second time in their careers.

Receiving this award for the first time were Acker , Benschoter , Boyd , Davis , Farnum , Gordon , Haygood , Hutchinson , McKenna , Nowak , Will O'Brien Sorce Tyus .