Dec. 24, 2005

Eleven members of the 2005 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 freshman or first-year transfer.

Selected to the GLIAC All-Academic team were juniors Dan Barnes (Grand Ledge, Mich.) and Jake Weingartz (Lapeer, Mich./East), redshirt junior Ryan Oshnock (Lakeview, Mich.), redshirt sophomores Dale Knuth (Canton, Mich./Dearborn Divine Child), Kris Prevost (Sterling Heights, Mich./Utica Stevenson), John Rehberg (Livonia, Mich./Stevenson), and Kenny Schmidt (Waterford, Mich./Mott), sophomores Alan Guy (Rochester Hills, Mich./Rochester Adams) and Frank Lietke (Walled Lake, Mich./Central),and redshirt freshmen Mickey Berce (Dearborn, Mich.) and Wes Brown (Cincinnati, Ohio/Sycamore).

Oshnock was honored for the third time in his career, while Barnes, Knuth, Prevost, Rehberg, Schmidt, and Weingartz have earned the award twice. Berce, Brown, Guy, and Lietke were eligible for the first time this season.