SCAC has Four Named D3Football.com Preseason All-Americans

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Led by the league's reigning Offensive and Defensive Players-of-the-Year - Alex Koors of DePauw University and Will Hawkins of Millsaps College - the SCAC had four student-athletes selected to the D3Football.com 2010 Preseason All-American Team.

Both Koors and Hawkins were First Team selections while Trinity University's special teams duo of punter Kyle Trella and placekicker Garrett Biel were Second Team selections.

Koors, a 6-2, 168-pound senior receiver from Indianapolis, Ind., set the DePauw single season receiving yards mark in 2009 with 1,266 yards - the third highest total in SCAC history. His 73 receptions placed him in a tie for the ninth-most in a SCAC single season and his 13 receiving touchdowns tied for the fourth-most. Ranked third in the nation in receiving yards, Koors had two 200+ yard receiving games in 2009 (212 yards vs. Millsaps and 209 yards vs. Anderson). He is the first conference receiver to post two 200+ yard receiving games in a single-season since David Crowley of Centre in 2004. For his career and with a year still remaining in Greencastle, Koors already ranks in the league's all-time top 10 for career receptions (169 - 10th), receiving yards (2,595 - fifth) and receiving touchdowns (26 - fifth).

Hawkins, a 6-2, 230-pound senior linebacker from Nettleton, Miss., tied for the SCAC lead with 102 tackles, becoming the first Millsaps player in six years with 100 tackles in a season. He had double digit tackles in five of the team's last six games in 2009, including a career-high 17 against Birmingham-Southern. Hawkins also finished tied for eighth in the conference with 7.5 tackles-for-loss and added three interceptions and two recovered fumbles. The league's 2009 Offensive Player-of-the-Year in baseball, Hawkins is just the second SCAC student-athlete to earn Player-of-the-Year honors in two separate sports - excluding cross country and track and field - following Liz Bondi of DePauw who was SCAC POTY in both women's basketball (twice) and tennis (three times).

Trella, a 6-0, 165-pound sophomore punter from Chandler, Ariz., had three punts over 60 yards this season, as well as several more punts over 50 yards and was named the 2009 SCAC Newcomer-of-the-Year. He broke a 46-year-old school record with his 48.8 yards per punt average against Sewanee, and now holds four of the top 10 averages in Trinity single-game history (min. five punts). Trella was a huge weapon for the Tigers as he dropped over 33% of his punts inside the 20-yard line (16). Trella finished second in all of Division III in punting average at 44.0 yards per punt.

Biel, a 5-8, 165-pound sophomore placekicker, from Clayton, Calif., led all of NCAA Division III a year ago by connecting on 17 of 19 field-goal attempts (.895). Biel averaged 1.70 field goals over the 10-game season. His 17 field goals established a Trinity record for a single season. Biel also broke the record for most field goals in one game, booting four against Rhodes College. His longest field goal of the season was 48 yards. Biel also kicked 31 of 33 extra points.

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