Senior Cole Hissong repeated as a first-team All-North Coast Athletic Conference selection, and eight Fighting Scot teammates joined the star tight end on the team, which was announced by the conference office on Thursday morning. Junior placekicker Lake Barrett, senior defensive back Beau Greenwood, junior punter Matt Pardi, and sophomore return specialist Carter Warstler were second-team selections, while senior center Eli Lohrey, senior linebacker Angelo Petracci, senior quarterback Mateo Renteria, and sophomore strong safety Alex White were honorable mention picks.
Hissong, one of four repeat first-teamers this year, is one of the top tight ends in all of NCAA Div. III. The senior ranks second in the NCAC with nine touchdowns and third with 53 receptions. In addition to leading all conference tight ends in the aforementioned statistical categories, he is the leader in receiving yards at 760, with all three totals ranking No. 1 on Wooster's team. This fall, Hissong was a three-time D3football.com Team of the Week honoree and he broke the program's all-time record for receiving touchdowns by a tight end at 15.
Barrett set records as well this fall, becoming the first Scot to make over 40 extra points in a season without a miss. The junior went 47-of-47 on extra point tries this fall and is currently ninth in Div. III with an 80.0 (8-for-10) field-goal percentage. The Fred Mitchell Award nominee, is one of three placekickers currently ranked in the top 220 in Div. III scoring with a 100-percent extra-point conversion rate with at least 45 attempts. His 71 points are second among NCAC placekickers this fall, and that total is the second-most in single-season program history for placekickers. Barrett is now a two-time all-conference selection.
Greenwood, Wooster's lone three-time All-NCAC pick this year, earned an elevation to the second team. The five-year defensive standout ranked second on the team with 60 tackles, and he was a top playmaker in the secondary, evidenced by five breakups, an interception, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery. He made a career-high 18 tackles in a 44-41 win at Wabash College on October 16 in what marked the Scots' first win at Little Giant Stadium since 2004.
Pardi enjoyed one of the top seasons in program history when it comes to punting. He averaged 42.9 yards per boot, with that making him the first Scot to average over 40 yards per punt with at least 20 boots since Dana Obery averaged 40.5 yards in 2010. In fact, Pardi's average ranks higher than Myndret Buscack's 1948 school record of 42.2 yards per punt. However, thanks to the offense's high level of success, Pardi does not meet the minimum punts required for the program's single-season list. He also does not meet the minimum requirement for the NCAA Div. III leaderboard this season, but his average is better than top qualifier Tyler Huettel's 42.8 yards per punt. Pardi's top game came in Wooster's 44-41 win at Wabash. There, he averaged a school-record 55.5 yards over four punts and was instrumental in the closing seconds by handling a high snap with great efficiency, then getting off a 55-yard punt to Wabash's 20-yard line in the final 30 seconds. Earlier in the fourth quarter at Wabash, Pardi pinned the Little Giants at their own 1-yard line, thanks to a career-long 66-yard punt.
Warstler, one of nine in Div. III this fall with a kickoff and punt return touchdown, set the program record with 34.9 yards per kickoff return, and he just hit the minimum to qualify with 10 run backs. Warstler broke free for a 75-yard punt return touchdown at Oberlin College and followed that up with a school-record 98-yard kickoff return touchdown in Wooster's 44-41 win at Wabash. He is the first Scot since at least 1970 with a kickoff and punt return touchdown in the same season, as that is the first year return touchdowns are broken down on the year-end stat sheets in College archives.
Lohrey, a 4.5-year starter, anchored Wooster's offensive line. He made 36 straight starts, appearing at center for all 10 games this fall. With Lohrey leading the protection, Wooster had Div. III's seventh-best passing offense during the regular season at 335.1 yards per game, with that marking a new single-season team record. The Scots had the NCAC's No. 1 passing offense, the No. 2 red zone offense, and the No. 2 scoring offense. The Scots currently rank in the top 40 in Div. III with 36.7 points per game. Lohrey's now a two-time All-NCAC selection.
Petracci led Wooster's defense with 88 tackles, the most by a Scot since alumnus Mitchell Czerniak's 125 in 2014. The senior added 2.5 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks, and an interception to his 2021 stat line. Petracci opened the year with 10 tackles against Geneva College and finished with double digits in five of the Scots first six games, including the 44-41 win at Wabash. His interception came on senior day versus Allegheny College, and it was a touchdown-saving pick coming in the end zone that helped the Scots pull away.
Renteria, now a two-time All-NCAC pick, dominated the key statistical categories within the league, leading the way in passing yards (3,237) and passing touchdowns (29). The NCAC's lone 3,000-yard passer was one of two repeat NCAC Offensive Athlete of the Week selections this fall, and he was the lone NCAC signal-caller to earn a spot on D3football.com's Team of the Week this fall, doing so twice. Renteria, who broke the program record for season passing yards, is currently fifth in Div. III in passing yards, sixth in yards per game, 12th in passing touchdowns, and 16th in points responsible for. He set single-game program records for total offense (550 yards), passing yards (503), completions (38), and passing touchdowns (6) during Wooster's 59-41 win over Allegheny on November 6.
White exploded onto the scene as one of Wooster's top defensive playmakers, and grabbed hold of a starting role for the final nine games of the year. He ranked third on the team in tackles with 58 and was second with five tackles for loss. White's two fumble recoveries led the Scots. He had a season-high 10 tackles at Oberlin and finished the year with eight tackles and a sack for a safety at Wittenberg University last Saturday.
Wooster went 6-4 this season, which included a 5-4 mark in conference play.