11/5/2015 12:00:00 AM | Football
LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - UNLV Football had two players voted to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team in the same year for the first time as senior quarterback Blake Decker (Mesa, Ariz.) and sophomore defensive lineman Mike Hughes Jr. (Las Vegas) were both announced as members of the elite squad on Thursday.
Decker holds a 3.44 cumulative grade point average in marketing. The former junior college transfer ranks ninth in career passing yards at UNLV with 3,895 despite only appearing in 19 games as a Rebel. He leads the squad this fall with 1,009 yards in six appearances.
Hughes, a graduate of Palo Verde High School, is a criminal justice major with a 3.31 GPA. The two-year letter-winner has started all eight games this season at defensive tackle and has 14 total tackles, including 2.5 tackles-for-loss, and a forced fumble.
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) selects Academic All-America teams throughout the year. Players who are starters or important reserves on their teams and are at least in their second year at a school and hold at least a 3.30 career GPA are eligible for the academic awards, which are voted on by sports information directors from across the nation. First-team Academic All-District honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
UNLV's district includes four-year institutions from the states of California, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Nevada as well as Canada.
2015 CoSIDA All-District Football TeamsDistrict 8 - University Division I
POS PLAYER, SCHOOL QB Blake Decker, UNLV QB Jeff Lockie, OREGON WR Mitchell Juergens, BYU WR Tim Crawley, SAN JOSE STATE WR Cooper Kupp, EASTERN WASHINGTON TE Jake Withnell, EASTERN WASHINGTON RB Damien Haskins, OREGON STATE RB Christian McCaffrey, STANFORD OL Justin Northern, FRESNO STATE OL Jake Brendel, UCLA OL Jacob Vazquez, FRESNO STATE OL Wes Schweitzer, SAN JOSE STATE OL Johnny Caspers, STANFORD K Conrad Ukropina, STANFORD DB Dallas Lloyd, STANFORD DB Marcus Williams, UTAH DB Todd Raynes, EASTERN WASHINGTON DB Devyn Bryant, SAN DIEGO DB Sidney Jones, WASHINGTON LB Peyton Pelluer, WASHINGTON STATE LB Max Michaels, SAN DIEGO LB Jake Gall, EASTERN WASHINGTON DL Andre Lino, EASTERN WASHINGTON DL Kory Rasmussen, HAWAII DL Hunter Dimick, UTAH DL Mike Hughes Jr., UNLV P Matthew Haack, ARIZONA STATE
