Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – Central Michigan’s Cooper Rush was named to the Academic All-Mid-American Conference football team for the fourth consecutive year on Tuesday.
The Chippewa quarterback, a National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete, is one of two players on the 2016 squad who has earned the honor in all four years of eligibility. Kurt Laseak of Ohio was the other.
Rush is one of 15 Central Michigan student-athletes named to the squad.
Six of those players, Joe Bacci, Mark Chapman, Josh Cox, Jabari Dean, Jeff Perry and Anthony Rice, were named to the squad for the third time.