BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins placed a national-best and school-record four players on the 2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-America Football it was announced today.  The Blue Jays had two players named to the first team and two named to the second team with all four players earning a spot on the team for the first team in their careers.
 
Senior wide receiver Ryan Hubley and senior cornerback Macauley Kilbane were both named to the first team, while junior safety Ross Andersson and junior offensive lineman Jacob Fetterolf both grabbed second team honors.
 
A School Record
The four Academic All-Americans are the most in one year in program history.  Johns Hopkins previously had three Academic All-Americans in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
 
Leading the Nation
Johns Hopkins' four Academic All-Americans were the most among all NCAA Division III schools.  Only one other Division III program (Case Western) had three Academic All-Americans, while 11 schools had two selections.
 
In addition to leading the way among Division III schools, Johns Hopkins and Stanford were the only two NCAA Division I, II or III programs to produce four Academic All-Americans.
 
On a Roll
In the last 10 seasons (2011-2020), the Johns Hopkins football program has produced 25 Academic All-Americans with at least one selection in nine of those 10 years; at least two players have been selected in all nine of those seasons.
 
The Honorees
Hubley is the first Blue Jay wide receiver to earn Academic All-America honors since Luke McFadden earned second team status in 2017 and the first to grab first team honors since Evan Earnest in 2006.  Hubley is a two-time All-Centennial Conference selection and will enter his final season ranked 10^th in school history in career receptions (153) and 15^th in receiving yards (1,729); he also has 11 career touchdown receptions to his credit.  Hubley double-majored in computer science and applied mathematics and statistics and graduated with a 3.74 cumulative GPA.
 
Kilbane is the second defensive back in school history to earn First Team Academic All-America honors as he joins Jack Toner (2016) on the distinguished list.  Kilbane is a two-time First Team All-Centennial selection and also earned Second Team D3football.com All-South honors in 2019.  He is only cornerback in school history to earn First Team All-Centennial honors in back-to-back years and has 142 career tackles, 22 pass breakups and five interceptions to his credit.  Kilbane has a 3.47 cumulative GPA and is majoring in economics.
 
Andersson joins Kilbane from the Blue Jay secondary on the Academic All-America Team.  He and Kilbane are just the third and fourth defensive backs in school history to earn Academic All-America honors as they join Toner (2015 & 2016) and Jim Sanders (2005).  Andersson has played in all 25 games in his career at Johns Hopkins and started all 11 games at safety in 2019.  He finished seventh on the team in tackles with 50 and added four pass breakups and three interceptions that year.  Andersson is majoring in chemical and biomolecular engineering and carries a 3.88 cumulative GPA.
 
Fetterolf is the latest in a long line of standout Blue Jay offensive linemen to earn Academic All-America honors. Including the first two Academic All-Americans in program history (Charles Hauck and James Schoettler in 1977), Fetterolf is the 13^th Johns Hopkins offensive lineman to grab Academic All-America honors with 10 of those selections coming since 2009.  Also majoring in chemical and biomolecular engineering, Fetterolf has a 3.93 cumulative GPA and has been a mainstay on the line since arriving at Homewood.  Fetterolf has played in 24 of 25 games during his career, including all 11 with five starts in 2019, when he helped lead the way for a Blue Jay offense that averaged 36.4 points and 459.3 yards per game.
 
To be eligible for CoSIDA Academic All-America honors, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA, be a sophomore or above and a starter or significant reserve.  Academic All-District Teams are selected from eight districts with those individuals being placed on the Academic All-America ballot; Johns Hopkins had a program-record and national-best 13 Academic All-District selections this year.
 
With the varied or non-existent playing seasons in 2020 for many teams across the country due to COVID-19, the CoSIDA Academic All-America/All-District process was shifted to late spring for all programs.  Statistical information and honors/awards were based on career achievements instead of having a season-specific focus.