GLVC Honors Eight Lincoln Football Players

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana  --  Eight members of the Lincoln football team were honored by the Great Lakes Valley Conference for their academic performance during the 2016-17 school year, the league office announced on Tuesday (June 27).

Junior defensive back Aaron Brown (Quincy, Calif.) was recognized by the GLVC for having a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Seven other Blue Tigers who had cumulative GPAs of 3.3 or higher were also honored by the conference.

Junior defensive end Jervonta Jones (St. Louis, Mo.) and redshirt sophomore linebacker Justus Schulte (Jefferson City, Mo.) each received the third Academic All-GLVC awards of their Lincoln careers. Senior running back Miles Drummond (Centralia, Mo.), senior linebacker Daniel Mande (Cuthbert, Ga.) and sophomore defensive back Zeke Smith (Kansas City, Mo.), meanwhile, each earned their second career Academic All-GLVC award.

The other two first-time Academic All-GLVC honorees, besides Brown, included junior kicker Alexander Templeton (Poway, Calif.) and junior linebacker Addison Tucker (Memphis, Tenn.).

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