Boren & Willoughby earn 1st-Team Academic All-America honors – Ohio State Buckeyes
12/3/2015 12:00:00 AM | Football
Dec. 3, 2015
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State senior Jacoby Boren and first-year graduate student Jack Willoughby have been named today to the Academic All-America first-team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Boren is a repeat Academic All-American, as he was named to the second team last year. The pair of honors increase Ohio State’s Academic All-America honor roll to 51 honorees with 28 first-team selections.
Boren, from Pickerington, Ohio and Pickerington Central High School, carries a 3.83 grade point average and majors in sustainable plant systems.
Willoughby, who transferred to Ohio State after graduating magna cum laude and with high honors (3.90 GPA) from Duke University with degrees in economics and statistics, is currently pursuing a master’s from Ohio State in agricultural environmental and development economics. He attended Lawrenceville High School in Princeton, N.J., before enrolling at Duke, where he played in 32 games for the Blue Devils and starred academically by earning an Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship and being named one of the school’s 14 merit scholars from a 29,000-plus Duke applicant pool.
Boren has now achieved two of the highest academic honors a football student-athlete can receive, as he previously has been named a 2015 National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete and a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by Fidelity Investments, which recognizes the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation. Boren is the 21st NFF Scholar-Athlete in Ohio State history, a total that ranks second nationally to the 22 scholar-athletes from Nebraska.
Boren is a two-time Big Ten Conference Distinguished Scholar, a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and a four-time OSU Scholar-Athlete. He has played in 43 games for the Buckeyes and has started 27 consecutive games at center. He was named third-team all-Big Ten this week by the league’s coaches and voting media.
Willoughby handled all of the kicking responsibilities for the Buckeyes for the first nine games of the season. Despite never attempting a field goal until this year, Willoughby is 7-of-11 in that department plus has made a Big Ten-best 45-of-45 extra points.
Ohio State’s Academic All-Americans
| 2015 | Jacoby Boren* – OC |
| 2015 | Jack Willoughby* – K |
| 2014 | Jacoby Boren – OC |
| 2008 | Brian Robiskie* – FL |
| 2007 | Brian Robiskie* – FL |
| 2006 | Anthony Gonzalez* – SE |
| 2006 | Stan White, Jr.* – FB |
| 2006 | James Laurinaitis – LB |
| 2003 | Craig Krenzel* – QB |
| 2002 | Ben Hartsock – TE |
| 2002 | Craig Krenzel – QB |
| 1999 | Ahmed Plummer* – CB |
| 1996 | Greg Bellisari* – LB |
| 1995 | Greg Bellisari* – LB |
| 1992 | Len Hartman* – OG |
| 1992 | Greg Smith* – NG |
| 1990 | Greg Smith – DL |
| 1989 | Joe Staysniak* – OT |
| 1988 | Joe Staysniak – OT |
| 1985 | Mike Lanese* – FL |
| 1984 | Dave Crecelius* – DT |
| 1984 | Mike Lanese* – FL |
| 1984 | Anthony Tiuliani – DL |
| 1983 | John Frank – TE |
| 1983 | Dave Crecelius – DT |
| 1982 | Joe Smith* – OT |
| 1982 | John Frank* – TE |
| 1981 | John Frank – TE |
| 1980 | Marcus Marek – LB |
| 1977 | Jeff Logan* – RB |
| 1977 | Ted Librizzi – DT |
| 1976 | Pete Johnson* – FB |
| 1976 | Bill Lukens* – OG |
| 1975 | Brian Baschnagel* – RB |
| 1975 | Pat Curto – DE |
| 1975 | Kenneth Kuhn – LB |
| 1975 | Bill Lukens – OG |
| 1975 | Chris Ward – OT |
| 1974 | Brian Baschnagel* – RB |
| 1973 | Randy Gradishar*# – LB |
| 1971 | Rick Simon* – OT |
| 1970 | Rex Kern – QB |
| 1969 | Bill Urbanik – DT |
| 1968 | Dave Foley – OT |
| 1968 | Mark Stier – LB |
| 1966 | Dave Foley* – OT |
| 1965 | Bill Ridder – MG |
| 1961 | Tom Perdue – E |
| 1958 | Bob White* – FB |
| 1954 | Dick Hilinski – T |
| 1952 | John Borton* – QB |
*First-Team; #Academic All-America Hall of Fame (1992)
