Seven Eagle Football Players Land CSC Academic All-District Recognition

As revealed by the College Sports Communicators (CSC) on Tuesday (Jan. 6) afternoon, seven Ashland University football players earned distinction as 2025 CSC Academic All-District selections in NCAA Division II:

• Senior quarterback Cameron Blair is an Education (Intervention Specialist) major with a 3.63 cumulative grade-point average through the 2025 fall semester. He threw for 2,109 yards and 12 touchdowns, and ran for 496 yards and six more TDs, this past season.
• Sophomore wide receiver Luke Brenner is a Finance major with a 3.75 cumulative GPA. In 2025, he caught 16 passes for 175 yards.
• Senior center Ethan Enders, a three-time CSC Academic All-District pick, has graduate GPAs of 4.00 and 3.80. He earned first-team All-Great Midwest Athletic Conference honors, and was a 2025 National Football Foundation (NFF) William V. Campbell Trophy semifinalist.
• Junior linebacker Ben Holzopfel sports a 3.85 cumulative GPA as an Exercise Science major. A second-team all-conference selection, he finished 2025 with 48 total tackles, 2½ tackles for loss and one sack.
• Sophomore tight end Jonathan Merimee is a Finance major with a cumulative GPA of 3.66. He grabbed 27 passes for 330 yards and three scores this past season.
• Sophomore right tackle Nico Traczyk has a 3.68 cumulative GPA as a Business Management major. He is the 2025 Great Midwest Offensive Lineman of the Year and an first-team all-league selection, as well as Division II Conference Commissioner's Association (D2CCA) All-Super Region 3 first team.
• Sophomore linebacker Sam Wakula is a Finance major sporting a 3.75 cumulative GPA. This fall, he finished with 43 total tackles, 4½ tackles for loss and 1½ sacks.

The Eagles finished the 2025 season at 10-3 overall and 8-1 in the Great Midwest – winning an NCAA Division II playoff game for the second season in a row for the first time, and earning a co-conference championship.  Ashland was 15^th in the final American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) D-II poll.
  Ethan Enders, 2025, 2024, 2023
Cameron Blair, 2025, 2024
Ben Holzopfel, 2025, 2024
Luke Brenner, 2025
Jonathan Merimee, 2025
Nico Traczyk, 2025
Sam Wakula, 2025
Tony Pannunzio, 2024, 2023
A.J. Rhodes, 2024, 2023
Collin Strong, 2024, 2023
Bobby Young, 2024, 2023
Dru Johnson, 2024
Jake McLoughlin, 2023
Nick Cone, 2022
Storm Elsesser, 2022
Gavin Posey, 2022, 2021, 2020
Austin Brenner, 2022, 2020
Logan Bolin, 2019, 2020
Clay Shreve, 2019
Travis Downing, 2018
Jack Holl, 2018
Isaiah Stiverson, 2018
Matthew Wilcox, 2017
Adam Shaheen, 2015, 2016
Eric Schwieterman, 2013, 2014
Donnie Dottei, 2012
Nick Bellanco, 2009
Vince Cashdollar, 2007