Eleven Pioneers Named Academic All-Conference!

After the best season in 6 years, the Grinnell College Pioneers were equally as impressive in the classroom boasting 11 MWC Academic All-Conference award winners!  The entire Grinnell Athletic Department had 85 Fall Academic All-Conference athletes named pacing the rest of the conference and well ahead of Beloit's 62 honorees, which was good for 2nd most.

Congrats to all the Grinnell student-athletes to be so named, but in particular to the 11 Pioneer Football players:

Drew Blumberg '13, Mike Bogard '12, Ryan Creps '12, Ryan Fletcher '11, Clinton Follette '11, Logan Granera '12, Marc Heronemus '11, Chris Jarmon '12, Augustus Karisch '11, TJ Schaid '13, and Joe Sinnwell '12.

See the entire MWC release here.

Coach Pedersen is 2010 MWC Coach of the Year! Pioneers Garner 7 All-MWC Honors!

The Grinnell College football team had an amazing run in the 2010 season, and that success has been reflected in the All-MWC selections.

Head Coach Jeff Pedersen ’02 (top, left) has been named MWC Coach of the Year, and linebacker Marquis Bradley ’11 (top, second from left), wide receiver Robert Seer ’12 (top, second from right) and returner Logan Granera ’13 (top, right) have been named to the All-MWC first team in voting by the league’s coaches.

Granera was also a second-team pick - at the wide receiver position - and was joined on that team by linebacker Ryan Fletcher ’11 (bottom, left), safety Marc Heronemus ’11 (bottom, second from left) and running back TJ Schaid ’13 (bottom, second from right). Offensive tackle Jake McVeigh ’11 (bottom, right) was an honorable mention pick for a team that won as many games in 2010 as the three previous Grinnell squads combined.

Under Pedersen’s guidance, the Pioneers achieved success not seen at Grinnell in quite a few years. Among them were beating Monmouth College for the first time since 2000, winning four of their first five games for Grinnell’s best start since 1999 and finishing at 6-4 for the team’s best record since 2004.

See the entire Grinnell release here.  See the entire 2010 All-MWC team here.

Ten Footballers Named Academic All-Conference

On Wednesday, 10 Pioneer football players were named to the Midwest Conference Academic All-Conference team. These 10 stellar student-athletes helped Grinnell land the most honorees from the fall sports on this list with a combined 84 among all the sports.

Congrats to Ryan Boehm, Mike Bogard, Trenton Bush, Chad Christoff, Ryan Fletcher, John Hereford, Marc Heronemus, Ben Johnson, Joe Sinnwell, and Jake Thompson on this terrific honor!

See the MWC release here.

Pioneers Host The Green Knights!

We open our conference schedule tomorrow versus St. Norbert College from DePere, Wisconsin. There is no denying that SNC is a good football team. They are coming off of a big win over #17 ranked Wartburg College and we are certainly going to be challenged.

We will relish in this challenge and we will use it to help gauge our progress towards winning a MWC Championship. St. Norbert is perennially one of the top teams in the conference and we are excited to have such a great opportunity!