Alabama Football Trio Earns CoSIDA Academic All-District Honors
11/16/2018 11:57:00 AM | Football
Keaton Anderson, Hale Hentges and Jedrick Wills Jr. and all earned first-team honors and will move on to the national Academic All-America ballot
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – A trio of Alabama football players were voted to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District IV team, it was announced Friday.
Redshirt junior defensive back Keaton Anderson, senior tight end Hale Hentges and sophomore offensive lineman Jedrick Wills Jr. all earned first-team honors. Alabama football has now tallied 17 CoSIDA All-District honors since 2009.
Anderson, who earned his undergraduate degree in marketing with a 3.82 GPA, is now pursuing a master's in marketing with a 4.0 GPA. Hentges also earned a bachelor's degree in marketing and is now pursuing a master's in marketing. He earned a 3.74 GPA as an undergraduate and holds a 4.0 GPA in his master's program. Wills Jr. carries a 3.52 while pursuing a degree in finance.
All three student-athletes now advance to the national ballot with a chance to be voted to the Academic All-America Team later this season. Alabama football players have earned Academic All-America honors seven times under head coach Nick Saban, the most notable being Barrett Jones, who was the first four-time honoree in CoSIDA Academic All-America history.
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