2022 CSC Academic All-District® Release
Junior defensive back Andrew Armile, senior placekicker Lake Barrett, sophomore wide receiver Andrew Hammer, junior offensive lineman Bryce Kamphues, senior punter Matt Pardi, and senior defensive back Matt Ulishney were among the College Sports Communications (CSC) Academic All-District® honorees, as announced by the organization on Tuesday afternoon.
Armile, a key three-year member of the defensive back rotation, appeared in all 10 games this fall. He finished the junior campaign with 21 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, and a breakup. Armile's season-high of six tackles came in Wooster's lid-lifting 33-25 win at Geneva College. He ranked second on the team with 46 tackles as a sophomore, and he logged a career-high 10 tackles and a fumble recovery against DePauw University. Armile's lone collegiate sack came in Wooster's 44-41 win at Wabash College in 2021.
The biology major has spent the last three summers as a shadow at various physical therapy clinics near his hometown of Poland, Ohio. He is a health coach with the College's partnership with Wooster Community Hospital. With the partnership, Armile provides relationship-based care to patients in the community, and educates, motivates, and helps patients set achievable goals to improve quality of life. On campus, Armile is a member of Men Working for Change, a group that spreads awareness against domestic violence on campus, and partners with OneEighty, a domestic abuse treatment center in Wooster. He is involved with the Wooster Volunteer Network and is a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative.
Barrett a two-time Academic All-District® honoree, was voted a first-team CSC Academic All-American® in 2021. The 2022 D3football.com Preseason All-American, National Football Foundation William V. Campbell Trophy semifinalist, Gagliardi Trophy nominee, three-time All-North Coast Athletic Conference selection, and three-year Fred Mitchell Award nominee, made every extra-point kick this fall, becoming the first player in program history to go multiple years without a miss. Wooster's career leader in extra-point percentage (99.1, 112-of-113) capped the year with 91 consecutive makes. He is third all-time with 112 career extra-point makes and tied for third with 21 career field goals.
Barrett is researching squirrel melanism, genetic origins, and possible functions of melanism mutation for his Independent Study. He secured a $2,000 grant to conduct research for the topic in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. This past spring, Barrett studied abroad in Panama. There, the biology and education major researched if agroforests can serve as a habitat for amphibians by looking at conservation, species diversity, evenness, and richness. Other research experience for Barrett includes a year working with Strawberry Dart Frogs on campus and a year observing a colony of bees.
Hammer started all 10 games this fall at wide receiver. He finished the year with 17 receptions for 323 yards and three touchdowns. The classical studies and economics major went for a career-high 86 yards, 80 of which came on a touchdown catch, in a 42-41 win at Kenyon College. He capped the year with 84 yards on three receptions with a touchdown in Wooster's 56-13 win at Oberlin College. As a first-year, Hammer caught six passes for 63 yards and made five tackles on special teams.
Kamphues, a three-year starter on the offensive line, was a key protector for NCAA Div. III's seventh-best passing offense in 2021. The Scots averaged a program-record 335.1 yards per game, while quarterback Mateo Renteria set the single-season record with 3,237 yards. This fall, the education and history major helped anchor a line that ranked third in the NCAC with 240.2 passing yards per contest.
Pardi, Wooster's other two-time Academic All-District® selection, started the year with D3football.com Preseason All-America honors. He lived up to the billing with a single-season program-best 43.5 per-punt average, a mark that ranked third in Div. III at the end of the regular season. Pardi's 41.1 career punting average broke the NCAC and Wooster records. The D3football.com all-region and two-time All-NCAC performer had a higher per-punt average than the Div. III leader in 2021, but did not have the minimum number of punts required to be the national statistical champion.
The biology major is analyzing the effects of a managed honeybee colony on the foraging behaviors of wild bees in an urban pollinator garden to understand the impacts of urban beekeeping on wild bee conservation for his Independent Study. The Allstate American Football Coaches Association Good Works Team nominee is one of the leaders of Wooster's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He plans events for the annual NCAA Div. III Week, helps organize the Adopt-A-Family event with Wayne County's Department of Job and Family Services, and organized a garage sale of old uniforms and practice gear as a SAAC fundraiser. He participates in the Wooster Community Hospital Health Coach Program, making weekly patient home visits to create a comprehensive care plan to improve patient health and quality of life.
Ulishney, a four-year starter in Wooster's defensive backfield, became the first Scot to hit the century mark in tackles since 2014 this fall. His 103 tackles placed the senior in the top-25 in NCAA Div. III for tackles per game, while he was eighth nationally in the regular season with 6.7 solo tackles per contest. The first-time all-conference selection logged six games with at least a dozen tackles this fall, including against Wittenberg University, where Wooster won 44-43 for its first win over the Tigers since 2008. Ulishney made three tackles for loss, forced two fumbles, tied for the team lead with two interceptions, and had a fumble recovery this fall. He made 190 career tackles over Wooster's three competing seasons.
A dynamic returner, Ulishney is on the program's top-10 leaderboard for kickoff returns (47), return yardage (1,159), and return average (24.7). He had a 90-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in Wooster's 16-14 win over Ohio Wesleyan University as a first-year.
Ulishney is examining variables to build overtime win probability models in NCAA Div. I football for his Independent Study. The mathematics major spent two summers as a quantitative analyst intern at SESCO Enterprises. There, he built interactive applications to display results, created presentations, and communicated methodologies to help the company make informed data-driven decisions. The Eagle Scout is part of Men Working for Change on campus and has served as a peer tutor for calculus courses.
All six of Wooster's Academic All-District® honorees are on the Academic All-America® ballot, which is voted on by CSC members. The announcement of the Academic All-America® Team for football is set for Tuesday December 20. Starting with the 2022-23 academic year, all eligible nominees submitted by member schools earn Academic All-District® status. Nominees were voted to the Academic All-District® Team in previous years and those winners advanced to the Academic All-America® ballot. Wooster's football team has 15 all-time Academic All-America® selections, the most of any sport at the College.