Eli Lohrey and Matt Pardi are now up for CoSIDA Academic All-America® consideration.

CoSIDA Academic All-District® Football Release

Eli Lohrey and Matt Pardi, standouts on The College of Wooster football team, were among the College Sports Information Directors of America's (CoSIDA) Academic All-District® Team, which was announced by the organization on Thursday afternoon. The duo will be up for CoSIDA Academic All-America® consideration.

Lohrey, an education and history major who is expected back this fall, has been a mainstay on the Scots' offensive line. As a first-year, Lohrey appeared in nine games and started the final six at right guard. That year, he blocked for an offense that ranked 24th nationally with 37.8 points per game and 30th with 456.3 yards per game. During his rookie season, Wooster's offense broke or matched 28 school records. As a sophomore, Lohrey was rated as the team's most athletic offensive lineman, and as such, transitioned to left tackle, where he stared all 10 games and earned second-team All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors. Lohrey helped pave the way for one of two offenses in the NCAC that had a running back and wide receiver with over 800 yards in 2018, and the Fighting Scots ranked in the top-30 nationally in passing at 276.3 yards per game. As a junior, Lohrey made another position change, this time to center. He started all 10 games and was part of an offense that had five starters named to the all-conference team and led the NCAC in passing at 252.8 yards per game. This past season, Lohrey started both exhibition contests – one at left tackle and one at center.

Lohrey, who will be student teaching this fall, looked at professional baseball from 1880-1930 and how Protestant leaders tried to prevent Sunday games in order to stop a changing society for his Independent Study. Long-term, Lohrey's an aspiring high school social studies teacher and football coach, and he hopes to pursue a real estate license. Elsewhere on campus, Lohrey's involved with Men Working for Change, an anti-domestic violence student organization. He's part of Wooster's Kappa Delta Pi chapter and is a member of Wooster Future Educators Association.

Pardi, a biology major, has been Wooster's starting punter since he stepped on campus. As a first-year, Pardi averaged 36.9 yards over 35 punts, placed nine punts inside the 20-yard line, and had three punts over 50 yards. Of note, Wooster was the lone NCAC team in 2019 that didn't have a punt blocked. This spring, he averaged 30.8 yards over 11 punts in exhibition action.

This summer, Pardi's shadowing physical therapists around Washington, D.C., and he plans on pursuing a career as a physical therapist upon graduating from Wooster. On campus, the rising junior is a student assistant for the sports medicine staff, works in the equipment room, and is a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

The NCAA Div. III CoSIDA Academic All-Americans® will be announced in mid-July. Wooster football student-athletes have earned 14 Academic All-America® awards – the most of any sport at the College. Wooster has 51 all-time Academic All-America® selections.