ST. LOUIS – A total of ten Illinois State football student-athletes were among the forty-five student-athletes that highlighted the 2021 Missouri Valley Football Honor Roll announced by the league office Tuesday.
Those 45 student-athletes earned the league's highest academic achievement by capturing the Missouri Valley Football Conference President's Council Academic Excellence Award. The Redbird honorees included Peyton Asche, Peter Bussone, Jacob Carl, Spencer DeForest, Stephen Halusen, Joey Lombardi, Joey Malinowski, Zach Mueller, Austin Nagel and Jacob Powell.
The President's Council Academic Excellence Award requires a minimum 3.