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COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John’s College senior defensive lineman Michael Wozniak (New Hope, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong) was one in every of 22 student-athletes throughout all divisions of school soccer named to the 2022 Allstate American Soccer Coaches Affiliation (AFCA) Good Works Group on Monday, Sept. 19.
This 12 months marks the thirty first anniversary of the award, which was established in 1992 to acknowledge a choose group of school soccer gamers who’ve made a dedication to service and enriching the lives of others.
A fan vote will run from now till Nov. 22 at www.ESPN.com/Allstate to determine this 12 months’s Allstate AFCA Good Works Group Captain. Followers could solid one vote per machine every day.
Wozniak is one in every of 4 honorees from the NCAA Division III stage – becoming a member of Matthew Feldick of Bethel, Alan Gorny of Johns Hopkins (Md.) and Matt Lilja of Mount Union (Ohio) – and one in every of six defensive linemen.
Wozniak is the sixth Johnnie to be named to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Group and the fifth within the final six seasons: quarterback Chris Backes ’21, offensive lineman Ben Bartch ’20, quarterback Jackson Erdmann ’19 and vast receiver Will Gillach ’19. Defensive finish Kevin McNamara ’07 was the primary SJU student-athlete to obtain the respect in 2006. The complete checklist of SJU’s honorees and nominees is under.
This previous summer season, sports activities info administrators from Division I, Division II, Division III and NAIA faculties throughout the nation submitted nominations of gamers they felt finest embodied the spirit of the Good Works Group award. A voting panel was confronted with a listing of 114 nominees that was narrowed all the way down to the 22 student-athletes and an honorary coach, Kentucky’s Mark Stoops, named to the crew.
A 2022 Lindy’s Preseason All-American and a 2021 D3football.com All-America first-team choice, Wozniak has 9 tackles (5 solo), together with 4.5 for a loss and three sacks, in addition to a compelled fumble by the season’s first two video games. He totaled 3.5 tackles for loss, three sacks and the compelled fumble within the Johnnies’ 24-10 win over then-No.-4 Wisconsin-Whitewater Sept. 3 and was named MIAC Soccer Defensive Participant of the Week for the efficiency. Wozniak has 11 tackles for loss and 6.5 sacks in his final 4 video games going again to final season, and 22.5 tackles for loss and 13.5 sacks in 22 profession video games.
No. 2 SJU (2-0 general) returns to competitors with the MIAC opener – a 1 p.m. kickoff at No. 20 Bethel (1-1 general) – this Saturday, Sept. 24, in Arden Hills.
Wozniak began all 12 video games and completed with a team-leading 15.5 tackles for loss and 10.5 sacks, together with 6.5 tackles for loss and three.5 sacks in two NCAA playoff video games, final fall. He totaled 30 tackles (20 solo), 5 quarterback hurries, a fumble restoration and a move breakup.
He returned to the sphere in 2021 after struggling a season-ending hand damage on the primary defensive play of the 2019 season – a deal with for loss – at Wisconsin-Stout.
Off the sphere, Wozniak is in his fifth 12 months elevating cash for a pair of SJU soccer’s initiatives, St. Jude Youngsters’s Analysis Hospital and Sort out Most cancers. He was additionally a member of the Johnnies’ Scholar-Athlete Advisory Committee, which holds an annual Youngsters Combating Starvation meal-packing occasion each March, for 2 educational years (2020-21 and 2021-22). Wozniak additionally helped arrange a swim meet for native Particular Olympians in Spring 2022 in Collegeville.
Again dwelling, Wozniak volunteered to educate 2nd- and Third-grade youth soccer for the Armstrong Cooper Youth Soccer Affiliation.
Along with his exemplary athletic efficiency and group service expertise, Wozniak can also be a adorned scholar. He was named to the 2021 School Sports activities Data Administrators of America Educational All-America first crew and is a two-time Educational All-MIAC honoree (minimal 3.5 GPA) with a 3.86 GPA in accounting.
SJU’s Allstate AFCA Good Works Group Nominees/Honorees Since 2006
2022 – Defensive Lineman Michael Wozniak (Allstate AFCA Good Works Group)
2021 – No Nominee
2020 – Quarterback Chris Backes ’21 (Allstate AFCA Good Works Group)
2019 – Offensive Lineman Ben Bartch ’20 (Allstate AFCA Good Works Group)
2018 – Quarterback Jackson Erdmann ’19 (Allstate AFCA Good Works Group)
2017 – Extensive Receiver Will Gillach ’19 (Allstate AFCA Good Works Group)
2016 – Linebacker Carter Hanson ’17
2015 – Offensive Lineman Ben Brown ’16
2014 – Offensive Lineman Alex Jarosz ’15
2013 – Working Again Colin Moynihan ’14
2012 – Working Again Stephen Johnson ’13
2011 – Defensive Again Andrew Rotschafer ’11
2010 – Linebacker John Stanton ’10
2009 – No Nominee
2008 – Working Again Jeff Schnobrich ’09
2007 – No Nominee
2006 – Defensive Lineman Kevin McNamara ’07 (Allstate AFCA Good Works Group)
