Feb. 12, 2008

Seventeen (17) members of the 2007 Wayne State football team were named to the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) All-Academic team.

To be eligible for GLIAC All-Academic status, a student athlete must have: a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or greater (on a 4.0 scale); must be a starter or key reserve; and must not be a true freshman or first-year transfer.

Selected to the GLIAC All-Academic team were seniors Luis Gomez (Oxford, Mich.), Guye Goodlow (Detroit, Mich./Renaissance), Alan Guy (Rochester Hills, Mich./Rochester Adams), Dale Knuth (Canton, Mich./Dearborn Divine Child), Frank Lietke (Walled Lake, Mich./Central), John Rehberg (Livonia, Mich./Stevenson) and Kenny Schmidt (Waterford, Mich./Mott), juniors Andrew Bates (Howell, Mich.) and Adam Nuckols (Waterford, Mich./Mott), redshirt sophomores Bruno Shkreli (Livonia, Mich./Clarenceville) and Brent Wisniewski (Madison Hts., Mich./Lamphere), sophomores Ryan Jonik (Canton, Mich./Plymouth Canton), Trent Pohl (Lansing, Mich./Grand Ledge) and Matt Shango (W. Bloomfield, Mich./Brother Rice), and redshirt freshmen Jimmy Kinaia (Troy, Mich./Athens), Chris Ratcliff (Grand Rapids, Mich./Creston) and Kenny Watson (Dayton, Ohio/Chaminade-Julienne).

WSU's three fifth-year senior tight ends -- Knuth, Rehberg and Schmidt -- have earned the conference all-academic award four times. Guy and Lietke were named for the third season in a row. Earning GLIAC All-Academic team honors for the second time were Nuckols, Shkreli and Wisniewski.