Utah’s Hunter Dimick Earns Academic America Honors
12/1/2016 10:00 AM | Football
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah senior defensive end Hunter Dimick has been named to the 2016 Academic All-America Division I football second team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
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He is the 15th Utah football player to earn Academic All-America honors and the first since 2009. Last season, Dimick was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team.
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The 2016 first-team All-Pac-12 Conference and Pac-12 All-Academic honoree carries a 3.33 grade point average and is majoring in communication. A two-time All-Pac-12 recipient (he was honorable mention as a sophomore), Dimick has made the Pac-12 All-Academic team all four years—including first-team status in 2015 and 2016.
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Dimick leads the Pac-12 and is tied for third in the nation in sacks (14.5) and tackles for loss (20.5). His 14.5 sacks is the third-best single-season total in school history. He is tied for the team lead in pass breakups with six and ranks fourth in tackles with 53.
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Dimick was named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week and Pac-12 Player of the Week against Arizona State after breaking the Utah record and tying the Pac-12 record for sacks in a game (5.0). He had 6.5 TFL in that game—also a Utah single-game record—and tied his career tackle high (9). He also set single-game school records for sack yardage (37) and TFL yardage (43).
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A four-year starter, Dimick has a school-record 29.5 career sacks and his 44.5 career tackles for loss is third all-time at Utah.
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He is the 15th Utah football player to earn Academic All-America honors and the first since 2009. Last season, Dimick was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team.
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The 2016 first-team All-Pac-12 Conference and Pac-12 All-Academic honoree carries a 3.33 grade point average and is majoring in communication. A two-time All-Pac-12 recipient (he was honorable mention as a sophomore), Dimick has made the Pac-12 All-Academic team all four years—including first-team status in 2015 and 2016.
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Dimick leads the Pac-12 and is tied for third in the nation in sacks (14.5) and tackles for loss (20.5). His 14.5 sacks is the third-best single-season total in school history. He is tied for the team lead in pass breakups with six and ranks fourth in tackles with 53.
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Dimick was named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week and Pac-12 Player of the Week against Arizona State after breaking the Utah record and tying the Pac-12 record for sacks in a game (5.0). He had 6.5 TFL in that game—also a Utah single-game record—and tied his career tackle high (9). He also set single-game school records for sack yardage (37) and TFL yardage (43).
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A four-year starter, Dimick has a school-record 29.5 career sacks and his 44.5 career tackles for loss is third all-time at Utah.
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