Falcon punter Jovin Kroll (Sr., Poplar, Wis. Northwestern HS) has been named to the first College Sports Information Directors of America/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 5 football team.

Kroll will now be considered for the national CoSIDA team. The country is divided into eight district and all district first team selections are under consideration for the national team.

Kroll, 6-1, 176 pounds, currently leads the WIAC in punting averaging 40.3 yards a kick. He has had a long punt of 68 yards. Kroll has been named the team's Special Teams Player of the Week four times this year and was named the WIAC Special Teams Player of the Week and to the D3football.com Team of the Week on Oct. 24. He earned the honor after he punted eight times and averaged 46.8 yards per kick in the team's 24-20 win over UW-Stout at Ramer Field. He had three punts over 50 yards with a long of 68, which was his career long. Stout returned just one punt for 10 yards. He had one punt downed inside the Stout 20. He also did all of the holding in Falcon extra points and field goals. The Falcons were 3-3 in extra points and 1-1 in field goals.

Kroll, an English education major who is working toward a minor in athletic coaching, has been involved in several campus organizations throughout his career. He has a 3.915 cumulative grade point average. He was a staff member of Prologue, the UWRF student literary publication and was a student representative in the English department's 2006 technical writing professor search and screen committee.

He has had two works published in the 2006 Wisconsin English Journal (Volume 48, Issue 1) - "There's Only One Thing Pedestrian about DeLong Middle School" and "The Bard and the Baritone on a Bus Tour." He earned the English department's Certificate of Merit for Advance Analysis in American Literature. He earned the Grace Bloom and Carl & Marion O'Connell Wurtz academic scholarships. Kroll has been named to the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll in 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 and has earned UWRF Dean's List honors in all eight semesters of attendance. He is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.

He has been named the team's captain for 2006 games against St. Francis, Stevens Point and Whitewater. He has worked at the UWRF writing center tutor for three years. Kroll has experienced several hours of tutoring, observing and teaching in area public schools in the teacher education program.

The Academic All-America program honors male and female student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, a 2,000 member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

To be eligible, a student-athletes must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the programs inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.