MINNEAPOLIS (11/30/06) -- Augsburg College tight end Andrew Neumann (Sr., Somerset, Wis.) was named to the 2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America College Division Football Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), it was announced on Thursday. Neumann was a second-team selection to the Academic All-America squad.

Neumann is an elementary education major with a 3.51 grade-point average. He was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V first team for football earlier this month.

The Academic All-America award is the latest in a postseason of honors for Neumann. He earned All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference first-team honors for the second season in a row, and was recently selected to play in the annual Aztec Bowl, an all-star game featuring top NCAA Division III seniors facing a Mexican national team, in Aguascalientes, Mexico, on Dec. 16. Last season, Neumann also earned Football Gazette All-West Region honorable-mention honors.

Since 1981, Augsburg student-athletes have earned 19 Academic All-America honors from CoSIDA. Neumann is the fifth Auggie football player to earn Academic All-America honors, and first since the 2001 season. Auggie football players have earned Academic All-America honors six times in school history (Scott Hvistendahl earned the honor in both 1997 and 1998).

Neumann finished this season with 741 receiving yards on 74 receptions, both totals tops among Augsburg receivers. He also scored four touchdowns this season. His receiving totals led MIAC tight ends for the second season in a row. Among all conference receivers in overall statistics, Neumann led the league in receptions per-game (10.0) and was fifth in receiving yards per-game (74.1). In league games-only statistics, Neumann was second in receptions per-game (7.75) and third in receiving yards per-game (75.8). Through the end of the regular season, Neumann ranked eighth nationally among NCAA Division III players in receptions per-game (7.4).

He became the fourth Augsburg player -- and first tight end -- to reach the 2,000-yard plateau in career receiving yards, finishing with 2,006 career yards on 186 receptions (second-most in school history). He finished his career with seven receiving touchdowns.

Neumann is also the starting heavyweight on Augsburg's wrestling team. He earned his first trip to the NCAA Division III national tournament last season, and has a 54-30 career record on the wrestling mat. He earned National Wrestling Coaches Association Scholar All-America honors in 2006.

As a high school athlete in Somerset, Wis., Neumann earned All-State honors and was a member of a Somerset squad that won a 2002 Wisconsin state championship. He earned all-conference honors twice. As a high school wrestler, he also won an individual state championship and finished with a school-record 125-18 career record. He qualified for state wrestling tournaments six times in his career, earning all-conference honors three times and all-region honors four times.

Under second-year head coach Frank Haege, Augsburg finished 1-9 overall, 1-7 in MIAC play in 2006. Augsburg's roster was a young one this season, with 43 freshmen on the 82-player roster.

The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America program is administered by CoSIDA. Top student-athletes from non-Division I programs, who have already earned Academic All-District first-team honors, are eligible for inclusion on the team. Student-athletes must have a grade-point average above 3.20 (4.0 scale) and have outstanding athletic credentials. The Academic All-America ballot is voted on by a committee of CoSIDA members.

St. John's linebacker Jamie Steffensmeier joined Neumann as MIAC honorees on the Academic All-America College Division team. Steffensmeier, an accounting major with a 3.84 grade-point-average, was a first-team selection. Also named to the College Division second team from Minnesota schools were Winona State defensive back Shawn Cunningham, Concordia-St. Paul linebacker Brad Scherer and Minnesota State Mankato defensive lineman Spencer Dickinson. Wisconsin-River Falls punter Jovin Kroll was named to the first team.

Three Minnesota natives earned Academic All-America honors at the University Division (Division I) level -- Notre Dame tight end John Carlson (Litchfield) and North Dakota State defensive back Craig Dahl (Mankato) on the first team, and Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis (Hamel) on the second team.