IWU’s Dunlop Earns Academic All-District

November 8, 2007
CONTACT: Stew Salowitz, 309-556-3206

Illinois Wesleyan senior running back Marcus Dunlop has been elected to the first team of the college division all-District V academic football squad and will join representatives of seven other districts on the ESPN: The Magazine Academic All-America national ballot.

Dunlop (Maywood, Proviso East HS) has a 3.96 grade-point average as a double major in economics and business administration (finance). He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Delta Epsilon [economics] scholastic honoraries and is president of the campus chapter of the Risk Management and Finance Society.

An academic all-conference selection, he is a member of the IWU Student Athletic Advisory Council, Black Student Union and did summer internships at State Farm Insurance (Bloomington) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (Chicago).

With 2,511 career yards prior to the Nov. 10 game against Wheaton, Dunlop is in second place all-time at IWU and needs 262 rushing yards to overtake Kurt Swearingen’s career total (2,772 yards, 1975-78). Dunlop is the school career leader in rushing attempts with 632, having topped the old mark of 604 by Britt Travis (1977-80).

He has been a second team all-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin selection the past two seasons and his 222 yards vs. North Park in 2004 is sixth most in an IWU single game.

The all-district teams are chosen by a vote of members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario. To be considered for the ESPN: The Magazine Academic All-America squads, players must be of at least sophomore standing, have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.2 (of 4.0), and be a starter or first-line reserve.

Illinois Wesleyan student-athletes have earned a total of 106 Academic All-America berths, a total eclipsed by only eight other schools, including Nebraska, Notre Dame, Penn State, UCLA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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