Fraboni Earns Academic All-District Honors
MOORHEAD, Minn. (11/07/14)—Concordia senior captain Domenic Fraboni has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District Team. Fraboni, who carries a 3.87 grade point average while majoring in Exercise Science, is now eligible for Academic All-American honors.
It is the first time in his career that Fraboni has earned the award which is selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Fraboni has excelled on, and off, the field for the Cobbers this season. He has played in all nine games in 2014 and is third on the team in rushing attempts, rushing yards gained and rushing touchdowns. He is having his best season in maroon and gold and is on pace to put up career-best numbers in rushing attempts, yards and TDs. Fraboni currently has 354 rushing yards on 58 attempts and has scored four touchdowns. He has a career-best 6.1 average and last week raced for the longest carry of his career when he went 61 yards for a touchdown against St. Thomas.
Fraboni has played in 32 games during his three-plus seasons at Concordia. He has 751 career rushing yards, a 5.4 yards per carry average and has scored 9 TD's. He has helped the Cobbers post back-to-back 8-2 seasons.
Fraboni has been extremely off the field as well. He was Concordia's first-ever nominee for the prestigious American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Allstate Good Works Team. He Fraboni was a member of the NCAA Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC) where he attended the NCAA national convention and helped the national SAAC committee with overall legislation/volunteer opportunities. He was also the Co-President of the MIAC SAAC committee in 2013-14.
The Capital One Academic All-District team is part of the Capital One Academic All-America program, as selected by CoSIDA. Top student-athletes from Division III programs in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are eligible for inclusion on the District 6 team. Student-athletes must have a grade-point average above 3.30 (4.0 scale) and have outstanding athletic credentials. College sports information directors in the district vote for the teams.
This is the fourth year of the expanded Academic All-America program, as CoSIDA has moved from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I), doubling the number of scholar-athletes honored. The teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools. First-team Academic All-District members advance to the Academic All-America ballot, voted on by a committee of CoSIDA members.
Capital One has been the entitlement rights holder to CoSIDA's Academic All-America programs since 2011. An NCAA Corporate Champion, Capital One began its affiliation with college sports with the sponsorship of the 2001 Capital One Florida Citrus Bowl (now the Capital One Bowl) and ESPN's Capital One Bowl Week. In addition, Capital One sponsors the ABC College Football Halftime Report, Capital One All-America Mascot team, Capital One Academic All Program, and supports all 89 NCAA Championships including the Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Championships, and numerous other collegiate athletics programs.