2018 GOOGLE CLOUD ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT (CoSIDA) - FOOTBALL
MINNEAPOLIS -- Augsburg University football players
Christopher Lemke (SR, Glencoe, Minn./Glencoe-Silver Lake HS) and
Derek Glynn (JR, Lonsdale, Minn./Faribault HS) were named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District 6 Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), it was announced on Thursday.
Lemke, an offensive lineman, is a chemistry major with a 3.96 grade-point average, while Glynn, a linebacker, is an exercise science major with a 3.83 GPA. The two Auggies were named to the 25-member academic elite squad, made up of top NCAA Division III football student-athletes from schools in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
This is Lemke's third straight year earning Google Cloud Academic All-District honors. He also earned
Academic All-America first-team honors in 2017. An
All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference second-team selection in 2017 and
All-MIAC honorable-mention selection in 2016, Lemke is a three-year starter at center for the Auggies.
In 2018, he was part of an offensive line that enabled the team to average 270.4 yards per-game (825 rushing yards, 1,879 passing yards), while allowing 84 tackles for-loss and 30 sacks. He has appeared in 34 games over his Augsburg career, including all 30 games in the last three seasons. During his 23 career games, Augsburg has produced 11,211 yards of total offense (329.7 yards per-game), including 3,518 rushing yards and 7,693 passing yards, while allowing 262 tackles for-loss and 93 sacks.
A co-captain each of the last two years, Lemke earned Academic All-MIAC honors in both 2016-17, and has been a Dean's List honoree. He is a member of the Tri-Beta biology honor society and the Augsburg Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
This is Glynn's first appearance on the Google Cloud Academic All-District squad. Glynn has started 29 of his 30 career games as an Auggie, earning
All-MIAC Honorable Mention honors in 2017.
For the second straight year, Glynn led the Auggies in tackles, accumulating 82 (38 solo), including four tackles for-loss. He also had a forced fumble, three fumble recoveries, two pass breakups and a quarterback hurry this season.
Among MIAC players in overall statistics, Glynn ranked fourth in both total tackles and tackles per-game (8.2). He led MIAC players in tackles last season.
In his 30 career games, Glynn now has 232 tackles (94 solo), including 18.5 tackles for-loss, 7.0 sacks, three fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles, three pass breakups and three quarterback hurries.
Glynn is a four-time Dean's List honoree at Augsburg, and earned Academic All-MIAC honors last season.
Augsburg has had at least one football player earn Google Cloud Academic All-District honors every year since 2006, and has had 24 honorees in Head Coach
Frank Haege's 14-year tenure. Augsburg finished 2-8 overall, 0-8 in MIAC play in 2018.
The Google Cloud Academic All-District team is part of the
Google Cloud Academic All-America program, as selected by CoSIDA. Top student-athletes from NCAA Division III programs in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are eligible for inclusion on the District 6 team, one of eight Division III districts nationwide. Student-athletes must have a grade-point average above 3.30 (4.0 scale) and have outstanding athletic credentials. College sports information directors in the district vote for the teams.
Google Cloud, a cloud computing services program for businesses, recently signed on as the title sponsor for
CoSIDA's Academic All-District/Academic All-America programs.
This is the eighth year of the expanded Google Cloud Academic All-America program, with separate teams comprising NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, along with a College Division team of NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools. First-team Google Cloud Academic All-District members advance to the Google Cloud Academic All-America ballot, voted on by a committee of CoSIDA members.
The Division III Google Cloud Academic All-America program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the Google Cloud Division III Academic All-America teams program.
(NOTE: Story includes information taken from CoSIDA Academic All-District release.)
