D3football.com All-America team
The honors continue to roll in for Johns Hopkins junior guard Colin Egan, who has been named a First Team D3football.com All-American it was recently announced. Egan, who is making his first appearance on an All-America team, was the lone returning starter on the Johns Hopkins offensive line this season and led a group that became a team strength as the season progressed.
Egan had previously earned First Team D3football.com All-South Region, First Team All-Centennial Conference and First Team CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-District honors. He is one of just three non-seniors named to the D3football.com All-America first team on offense and is the latest in a long line of All-America offensive linemen Johns Hopkins has developed. Egan's selection marks the third straight year and the fourth year in the last five that Hopkins has produced at least one All-American from the offensive line. He is just the third offensive lineman in school history to earn first team honors, joining Ben Cranston (2013) and Armand Jenifer (2012, 2013).
With Egan leading the way, the Johns Hopkins offense averaged 37.2 points and 434.4 yards per game. The Blue Jays scored at least 21 points in all 12 of their games this season, averaged 6.0 yards per play and totaled more than 25 touchdowns rushing (34) and passing (27) for just the second time in school history. In addition, the Johns Hopkins offensive line allowed just seven sacks in 12 games.
Senior Michael Long of the Muhlenberg football team was named to the D3football.com All-America first team.
Long, a third-team selection on the D3football.com All-America squad last year, is only the third Mule to make the elite squad twice, joining kick returner (and current assistant coach) Joshua Carter (1999-2000) and linebacker Patrick McDonough (2010-11).
The big tight end, a preseason All-America selection, also is the first Muhlenberg player to make the D3football.com All-America first team since Carter in 2000. A total of 10 Mules have combined for 12 appearances on the all-star team, which made its debut in 1999.
Long, a unanimous All-Centennial Conference first-team selection, caught 60 passes for 700 yards and 10 touchdowns. He broke the CC records for receptions by a tight end in a season (60) and career (135) while tying his own single-game mark of 11. Long tied for the CC lead with his 10 receiving touchdowns.
Among Division III tight ends, Long tied for the lead in receptions and was the only one with double figures in touchdown catches.
Long finished his career sixth on the Mules' all-time list in career receptions and 12th in receiving yards (1,518).
The All-America team announcement was made prior to last night's Stagg Bowl, won by Wis.-Whitewater. That gave the Mules (9-2) three degrees of separation from the national champions: They lost by one point in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Widener – a game in which Long caught 11 passes for 159 yards and two touchdowns. Widener went on to fall in the third round to Linfield, which was eliminated in the semifinals by Whitewater.