Army West Point Athletics
Army Duo Named Academic All-America
November 23, 2010 | Football
WEST POINT, N.Y. – For the first time since 1990, the Army football team has placed two players on the ESPN Academic All-America Team as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Senior DB Jordan Trimble was a first-team selection, while senior DL/LS Carson Homme was chosen to the Academic All-America Second Team.
Trimble is the first Army player to earn first-team Academic All-America accolades since Brandon Perdue in 2001. He is the 13th Army player to earn the prestigious distinction.
The Ashburn, Va., native boasts a 3.77 grade point average while majoring in systems engineering. On the field, Trimble has played in 10 games, making 34 tackles. He has intercepted one pass and broken up two other throws. Trimble has scored one touchdown this season, taking a lateral following a teammate’s interception and sprinting 42 yards for the score.
Trimble is one of three brothers to play football at West Point. His older brother, Jeremy, graduated in 2008 and finished his career as Army’s all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. Jordan’s younger brother, Justin, is a freshman linebacker on the 2010 squad.
Homme earned second-team accolades after posting a 3.92 GPA as a mathematical sciences and American history major. In addition to his work in the classroom, Homme serves as a regimental commander and is responsible for leading approximately 1,000 members of the U.S. Corps of Cadets.
On the field, Homme is the Black Knights’ snapper on both punts and field goals for the past two seasons. Also serving as a reserve defensive end, Homme has one tackle this season and has three career stops.
Trimble and Homme are the eighth and ninth Army football players to garner first- or second-team national honors since 1970 and the 16th and 17th Black Knights named an Academic All-America since the program’s inception in 1952. In all, those 17 players have copped 19 national citings.
With the duo’s selection to the ESPN Academic All-America District 1 team earlier this season, 20 Army players have now gained district academic honors since 1989. In all, Black Knight players have garnered 27 district citations during that span.
To be nominated for the Academic All-America team, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore starter or significant reserve on his team with a 3.3 cumulative grade point average. The District 1 team includes all NCAA Division I schools within the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. District honorees later become eligible for selection to the national Academic All-America team.
The Black Knights are bowl eligible (6-5) for the first time since 1996, and will conclude their regular-season on Dec. 11 in the annual Army-Navy Game presented by USAA at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field. The 2010 affair is the 111th meeting between the two rivals.
Trimble is the first Army player to earn first-team Academic All-America accolades since Brandon Perdue in 2001. He is the 13th Army player to earn the prestigious distinction.
The Ashburn, Va., native boasts a 3.77 grade point average while majoring in systems engineering. On the field, Trimble has played in 10 games, making 34 tackles. He has intercepted one pass and broken up two other throws. Trimble has scored one touchdown this season, taking a lateral following a teammate’s interception and sprinting 42 yards for the score.
Trimble is one of three brothers to play football at West Point. His older brother, Jeremy, graduated in 2008 and finished his career as Army’s all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. Jordan’s younger brother, Justin, is a freshman linebacker on the 2010 squad.
Homme earned second-team accolades after posting a 3.92 GPA as a mathematical sciences and American history major. In addition to his work in the classroom, Homme serves as a regimental commander and is responsible for leading approximately 1,000 members of the U.S. Corps of Cadets.
On the field, Homme is the Black Knights’ snapper on both punts and field goals for the past two seasons. Also serving as a reserve defensive end, Homme has one tackle this season and has three career stops.
Trimble and Homme are the eighth and ninth Army football players to garner first- or second-team national honors since 1970 and the 16th and 17th Black Knights named an Academic All-America since the program’s inception in 1952. In all, those 17 players have copped 19 national citings.
With the duo’s selection to the ESPN Academic All-America District 1 team earlier this season, 20 Army players have now gained district academic honors since 1989. In all, Black Knight players have garnered 27 district citations during that span.
To be nominated for the Academic All-America team, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore starter or significant reserve on his team with a 3.3 cumulative grade point average. The District 1 team includes all NCAA Division I schools within the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. District honorees later become eligible for selection to the national Academic All-America team.
The Black Knights are bowl eligible (6-5) for the first time since 1996, and will conclude their regular-season on Dec. 11 in the annual Army-Navy Game presented by USAA at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field. The 2010 affair is the 111th meeting between the two rivals.
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