Olivet College’s Miller named to Academic All-America® Football second-team

OLIVET, Mich. -- Olivet College senior defensive end Marc Miller (Sunfield/Lake Odessa) has been named to the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® College Division Football second-team, as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

 Miller has a 3.63 grade point average, majoring in biology with a pre-medicine concentration. He finished the 2007 season with 34 solo and 24 assisted tackles for 58 total stops. Miller led the Comets with 15 tackles for loss yardage along with six quarterback sacks. He was also recently named the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association's (MIAA) Co-Defensive MVP and first-team All-MIAA.

For his career at Olivet, Miller had 211 total tackles, including 135 solo stops. He recorded 22.5 tackles for loss yardage.

Off the football field, Miller is a member of Alpha Pi Upsilon, the college's pre-med honor society.

Miller is the second Olivet student-athlete this year to earn Academic All-America® honors. Overall in school history, the Comets have had nine Academic All-America® recipients, including eight in the last five years.

The Academic All-America® Teams program honors 816 male and female student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA; a 2,000-member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.

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