Junior punter earns second such honor in program history
TAMPA, Dec. 9, 2019 – Junior punter Trent Schneider (Sydney, Australia) has been named a 2019 Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Schneider, who posted a program record-breaking season in 2019, earned second-team honors with a 4.00 grade-point average in communications, becoming just the second USF football player to be recognized as an Academic All-American and the first since center Chize Hine earned second-team honors in 2011.
Schneider set program records with a 46.0 average and 3,266 total punting yards on the 2019 season. He eclipsed the previous season marks of a 44.4 average set by Mattias Ciabatti in 2014 and his own yardage mark of 3,176 posted in 2018.
On the year, Schneider also posted the top three game averages in program history, including a new game record mark of 52.8 yards per punt on five efforts vs. BYU. His marks of 51.6 ypp vs. Georgia Tech and also vs. Memphis stand tied for second on the USF game charts, and his 464 total punting yards vs. Memphis are a game record.
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The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and is in its 23rd season (20th at the FBS level) in 2019. The Bulls have posted 15 winning seasons, earned 14 All-America selections and 29 first-team all-conference selections and has seen 30 players selected in the NFL Draft.USF has made 10 bowl games appearances (going 6-4 in those games) and posted a program record six straight appearances from 2005-2010. The Bulls most recently made four straight bowl appearances from 2015-18 and posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016 while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. USF spent a program record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 seasons and reached as high as No. 2 in the national rankings during the 2007 season.
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