Andrew Day named to ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Second Team for football

Wheaton, Ill. (12/1) Senior placekicker Andrew Day has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America College Division Football Team. Day was named to the Second Team of the College Division. Over the years Wheaton has produced 37 Academic All-Americans through the prestigious program and Day becomes the 13 th selection from the Wheaton football program to earn the honor.

Day holds a 3.85 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at Wheaton and is a Biblical and Theological Studies double-major in the pre-medicine program at Wheaton. Day, an expected graduate this December, also will earn minors in Chemistry and Economics. He holds Wheaton 's school-record for field goals in a career, with 32 over the past four seasons, breaking the previous mark of 26 which had stood for 27 years. He also holds the team-record for career PAT's with 166. This season Day was a First Team All-CCIW selection. He was 10-for-13 on his field goal attempts this year with a 76.9% field goal accuracy, the highest in the CCIW. Day's 66 points this season led the CCIW in kick scoring and he was a perfect 36-for-36 on his PAT attempts with the Thunder. He is 14 th among all Division III kickers in field goals per game. Day has been selected to play on a Division III All-Star team by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) in the 2005 Aztec Bowl on December 17 in Toluca, Mexico.

The Academic All-America program consists of two divisions: University Division (Division I/I-AA) and College Division (Division II, III and NAIA schools). The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team annually honors student-athletes who have succeeded at the highest level in athletics and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, the College Sports Information Directors of America; a 2,000-member organization consisted of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Division I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.

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