Wake Forest Athletics
Four Deacons Named to All-ACC Academic Team
2/4/2008 12:00:00 AM | Football
Feb. 4, 2008
Four members of the Wake Forest University football team were named to the All-ACC Academic team on Monday. It marks the most Demon Deacons named to the team since Wake landed four members on the 1995 squad.
The four Demon Deacons include offensive tackle Louis Frazier, quarterback Riley Skinner, defensive end Jeremy Thompson and tight end Ben Wooster.
Frazier has earned All-ACC Academic honors for the third consecutive year. Thompson is on the team for the second time in his career, having been named to the team as a sophomore in 2005. Wooster and Skinner are first time-members of the All-ACC Academic team.
To be eligible for the All-ACC Academic team, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.0 grade point average or higher for the previous semester and maintained a 3.0 cumulative average during his academic career.
Thompson, a 6-5, 264-pound senior from Charlotte, NC (Charlotte Christian) led Wake Forest with 6.5 sacks in 2007. He was an Academic All-District III selection and also a finalist for the National Sportsmanship Award. He finished the season with 45 tackles and 11 tackles for loss and participated in the Senior Bowl last month in Mobile, AL.
Frazier, a 6-4, 315-pound senior from Clearwater, FL (Clearwater), also earned Academic All-America honors in the fall. He will graduate from Wake Forest in May with a degree in biology and minors in chemistry and sociology. Frazier was Wake Forest's starter at left tackle and graded out at 85.9 percent on the season with 57.5 knockdown blocks.
Skinner, a redshirt sophomore from Jacksonville, FL (Bolles School) was the nation's most accurate passer in 2007. He led the Bowl Subdivision in completion percentage at 72.4% by completing 236 of 326 pass attempts last season for 2,204 yards. Skinner set the school record for completion percentage in a season, breaking his own mark of 65.8% set in 2006. He is also Wake Forest's career completion percentage leader at 69.5%.
Wooster, a 6-5, 226-pound redshirt sophomore tight end from Atlanta, GA (Greater Atlanta Christian) had two catches for 12 yards in 2007. He caught his first career touchdown pass in Wake Forest's 31-17 win at Vanderbilt on Nov. 24.
