Complete 2016 Academic All-District Football Teams

BALTIMORE, MD - The seventh-ranked Johns Hopkins football team matched its national ranking on Thursday as seven Blue Jays were named to the 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-District II Football Team. This is the eighth consecutive year that the Johns Hopkins football program has produced six or more Academic All-District selections and pushes the Blue Jays' total to 92 Academic All-District selections in the last 14 years and 118 selections since 1991. During JHU's current eight-year run at the top of the Centennial Conference the Blue Jays have now produced 63 Academic All-District players.

Headlining Johns Hopkins' Academic All-District selections this season are a pair of repeat honorees in senior linebacker Jack Campbell (Chagrin Falls, OH/Chagrin Falls) and senior defensive back Jack Toner (Western Springs, IL/Benet Academy). Campbell and Toner went on to earn Second Team Academic All-America honors last season.

First-time selections for Johns Hopkins include junior wide receiver Brett Caggiano (Willow Street, PA/Penn Manor), sophomore offensive lineman Cameron Little (Zanesville, OH/Tri-Valley), senior defensive back Marcus Spearman (Yorktown, VA/Grafton), senior defensive lineman Kyle Bonci (Eastchester, NY/Iona Prep) and junior defensive lineman Chris Stauch (Hummelstown, PA/Hershey).

Campbell is majoring in biology and has a 3.88 cumulative GPA. He currently leads the team in tackles (75) this season and counts career totals of 254 tackles, 11.0 tackles for losses, four sacks and four interceptions to his credit. He has served as a Patient Assistant volunteer at the Cleveland Clinic, helps tutor/mentor inner-city Baltimore children and was the student leader for the Johns Hopkins football Be the Match drive last spring. Campbell has twice worked as a summer research intern at the Cleveland Clinic and was also a clinical observer there during the summer of 2015.

Toner is one of the top safeties in the nation and has 37 tackles, six interceptions and four pass breakups on the year. He is tied for second in school history with 16 interceptions and also has 170 career tackles and 22 pass breaks as well. Toner is majoring in economics with a minor in entrepreneurship and management and boasts a 3.78 cumulative GPA. He is a volunteer with the Johns Hopkins' AND1 Tutoring program with young local athletes and the Stop Soldier Suicide Golf Outing. He has completed summer internships at the Financial Strategy Network (2014), the William Blair & Co (2015) and Private Vista (2016).

Caggiano is a member of a deep and talented core of Blue Jay wide receivers. He currently has 20 receptions for 476 yards and four touchdowns this season and ranks eighth in the nation in yards per reception (23.8). A mechanical engineering major with a 3.32 cumulative GPA, Caggiano has career totals of 44 receptions for 851 yards and five touchdowns.

Little, one of just five sophomores to make the 23-man Academic All-District II Team, is the leader of an offensive line that is paving the way for an offense averaging 42.2 points and 516.5 yards per game; the Blue Jays rank 18th in the nation in scoring offense and 11th in total offense. Little is the Director of Operations for the Johns Hopkins Financial Analysts Club and was a Financial Advisory/Wealth Management intern at Merrill Lynch last summer. He is also the Assistant Editor of the Economics and Business section of the Baltimore Zeitgeist newspaper and carries a 3.81 cumulative grade point average in economics with a minor in financial economics and entrepreneurship and management.

Spearman boasts a 3.62 cumulative GPA and is majoring public health. He has started all eight games and has 14 tackles, a team-high six pass breakups and one interception on the year and has career totals of 41 tackles, eight pass breakups, two interceptions, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.

Bonci is majoring in economics with a minor in financial economics and entrepreneurship and management and has a 3.32 cumulative GPA. He counts 21 tackles and team-highs of 9.0 tackles for losses and 8.0 sacks on the year and 67 tackles, 17.0 tackles for losses and 10.5 sacks in his career. He is a member of the Financial Analysts Club at Johns Hopkins and was an Asset Management intern at Gabelli & Company last summer and a Wealth Management intern at Altium Wealth Management in 2015.

Stauch has a 3.73 cumulative GPA and is majoring in molecular and cellular biology. He has played in seven games this season and has 11 tackles on the year and counts 29 tackles and one tackle for loss to his credit in his career. Stauch is currently serving as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and is an active member of the And1 tutoring program, where he works with inner-city high school student-athletes.

Johns Hopkins' seven Academic All-District honorees now go on the ballot for CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. That team will be announced on November 29. The Johns Hopkins football program has produced 25 all-time CoSIDA Academic All-Americans.

Johns Hopkins enters this week's game at Franklin & Marshall with an 8-0 overall record and a 7-0 record in the Centennial Conference. The Blue Jays can clinch at least a share of their eighth straight Centennial Conference title and the league's automatic bid to the upcoming NCAA Playoffs with a win against the Diplomats.

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