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Utah’s Hunter Dimick Earns Academic America Honors
12/1/2016 10:00 AM | Football
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah senior defensive end Hunter Dimick has been named to the 2016 Academic All-America Division I football second team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
He is the 15th Utah football player to earn Academic All-America honors and the first since 2009. Last season, Dimick was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team.
The 2016 first-team All-Pac-12 Conference and Pac-12 All-Academic honoree carries a 3.33 grade point average and is majoring in communication. A two-time All-Pac-12 recipient (he was honorable mention as a sophomore), Dimick has made the Pac-12 All-Academic team all four years—including first-team status in 2015 and 2016.
Dimick leads the Pac-12 and is tied for third in the nation in sacks (14.5) and tackles for loss (20.5). His 14.5 sacks is the third-best single-season total in school history. He is tied for the team lead in pass breakups with six and ranks fourth in tackles with 53.
Dimick was named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week and Pac-12 Player of the Week against Arizona State after breaking the Utah record and tying the Pac-12 record for sacks in a game (5.0). He had 6.5 TFL in that game—also a Utah single-game record—and tied his career tackle high (9). He also set single-game school records for sack yardage (37) and TFL yardage (43).
A four-year starter, Dimick has a school-record 29.5 career sacks and his 44.5 career tackles for loss is third all-time at Utah.
He is the 15th Utah football player to earn Academic All-America honors and the first since 2009. Last season, Dimick was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team.
The 2016 first-team All-Pac-12 Conference and Pac-12 All-Academic honoree carries a 3.33 grade point average and is majoring in communication. A two-time All-Pac-12 recipient (he was honorable mention as a sophomore), Dimick has made the Pac-12 All-Academic team all four years—including first-team status in 2015 and 2016.
Dimick leads the Pac-12 and is tied for third in the nation in sacks (14.5) and tackles for loss (20.5). His 14.5 sacks is the third-best single-season total in school history. He is tied for the team lead in pass breakups with six and ranks fourth in tackles with 53.
Dimick was named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week and Pac-12 Player of the Week against Arizona State after breaking the Utah record and tying the Pac-12 record for sacks in a game (5.0). He had 6.5 TFL in that game—also a Utah single-game record—and tied his career tackle high (9). He also set single-game school records for sack yardage (37) and TFL yardage (43).
A four-year starter, Dimick has a school-record 29.5 career sacks and his 44.5 career tackles for loss is third all-time at Utah.
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