Wake Forest Athletics
Program Record 30 Demon Deacons Selected to All-ACC Academic Team
1/31/2023 10:00:00 AM | Football
This marks the second-consecutive season that the program record has been set, totaling 41 honors between the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Wake Forest football team had 30 student-athletes named to the All-ACC Academic, as announced by the league office Tuesday.
This marks the second-consecutive season that the program record has been set, totaling 41 honors between the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Additionally, This is the seventh-consecutive year the Demon Deacons have had four or more members on the All-Academic team and the fourth consecutive season five players garnered honors.
The 30 Wake Forest players on the team include redshirt freshman Quincy Bryant (undeclared), redshirt senior tight end Jaeger Bull (Sustainability), sophomore defensive back Caelen Carson (Communication), redshirt senior offensive lineman Spencer Clapp (Sustainability), redshirt freshman long snapper Will Cobb (Political Science), sophomore running back Quinton Cooley (Communication), redshirt freshman kicker Matthew Dennis (Undeclared), sophomore running back Justice Ellison (Communication), redshirt freshman Matt Gulbin (Undeclared), redshirt freshman quarterback Mitch Griffis (Elementary Education), redshirt junior defensive back Brendon Harris (Liberal Studies), redshirt freshman linebacker Dylan Hazen (Undeclared), redshirt junior linebacker Jaylen Hudson (Communication), redshirt sophomore tight end Cameron Hite (Communication), junior linebacker Chase Jones (Finance), redshirt junior offensive lineman Michael Jurgens (MBA), redshirt senior offensive lineman Sean Maginn (Sustainability), redshirt senior defensive back Jermal Martin, Jr. (Liberal Studies), redshirt sophomore punter Ivan Mora (Elementary Education), redshirt sophomore wide receiver Taylor Morin (Engineering), redshirt senior place kicker Zach Murphy (Sustainability), redshirt senior offensive lineman Je'Vionte' Nash (Liberal Studies), redshirt senior offensive lineman Loic Ngassam Nya (Sustainability), redshirt sophomore defensive lineman Kevin Pointer Jr. (Communication), sophomore defensive back JJ Roberts (Communication), redshirt senior defensive lineman Kobie Turner (Liberal Studies), redshirt freshman running back Will Towns (Undeclared) junior defensive tackle Kendron Wayman (Health & Exercise Science), redshirt junior tight end Blake Whiteheart (Liberal Studies) and sophomore wide receiver Ke'Shawn Williams (Communications).
Morin was named to the team for the third consecutive season while Ellison and Jurgens earned their second honors in their career.
Minimum academic requirements for selection to the All-ACC Academic Team are a 3.0 grade point average for the previous semester, a 3.0 cumulative average during one's academic career and have played in at least 50 percent of the team's contests.
All-ACC Academic Team Honorees
- Quincy Bryant, LB, Undeclared
- Jaeger Bull, TE, Sustainability
- Caelen Carson, DB, Communication
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Spencer Clapp, OL, Sustainability
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Will Cobb, LS, Political Science
- Quinton Cooley, RB, Communication
- Matthew Dennis, K, Undeclared
- Justice Ellison, RB, Communication
- Matt Gulbin, OL, Undeclared
- Mitch Griffis, QB, Elementary Education
- Brendon Harris, DB, Liberal Studies
- Dylan Hazen, LB, Undeclared
- Jaylen Judson, LB, Communication
- Cameron Hite, TE, Communication
- Chase Jones, LB, Finance
- Michael Jurgens, OL, MBA
- Jermal Martin, Jr., DB, Liberal Studies
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Sean Maginn, OL, Sustainability
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Ivan Mora, P, Elementary Education
- Taylor Morin, WR, Engineering
- Zachary Murphy, PK, Sustainability
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Je'Vionte' Nash, OL, Liberal Studies
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Loic Ngassam Nya, OL, Sustainability
- Kevin Pointer Jr., DL, Communication
- JJ Roberts, DB, Communication
- Will Towns, RB, Undeclared
- Kobie Turner, DL, Liberal Studies
- Kendron Wayman, DL , Health & Exercise Science
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Blake Whiteheart, TE, Liberal Studies
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Ke'Shawn Williams, WR, Communications
Wake Forest Football Overview
The Demon Deacons defeated Southeastern Conference representative Missouri 27-17 in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. on Dec. 23, 2022. The win marked Wake Forest's fifth in the last seven years since the Deacs began the Atlantic Coast Conference's second-longest bowl streak and the country's tied for the 10th-longest back in 2016.
During the Deacs current run of bowl appearances, Wake Forest has defeated two SEC teams (Texas A&M, 2017; Missouri, 2022) and a Big Ten team (Rutgers).
Head coach Dave Clawson's five bowl victories, which is the most in school history, ranks tied for fifth in ACC history for postseason wins. Clawson ranks behind Bobby Bowden (Florida State, 11), Dabo Swinney (Clemson, 11), Frank Beamer (Virginia Tech, 6) and Danny Ford (Clemson, 6). Meanwhile, he is now tied with Jimbo Fisher (Florida State, 5) and Ralph Friedgen (Maryland, 5).
The 2022 Wake Forest football team (8-5 Overall) was just the 10th in program history to win eight games in a season in the 115-year history of the program. Four of the 10 eight-win seasons have come in the Dave Clawson era (40 percent).
Since the start of the 2016 season, the Deacs are tied for the second-most wins in the ACC not counting the COVID-shortened 2020 season entering bowl season. Additionally over the last five years, the Deacs have the second-most wins in a single five-year period.
With that, the Deacs have set a new standard for success in the win column with a record of 19-8 over the last two seasons. The 19 wins in a two-year period are the second most in school history and three away from the program record of 21 set in 2006 & 2007. Additionally, Wake Forest's 19-8 record is the ninth-best mark in all of Power-5 in the last two seasons.
Offensively, Wake Forest finished the 2022 season averaging 36.1 points per game, helping the Deacs post its sixth consecutive season of averaging 30 or more points a game. This is the longest active streak and the fourth longest in ACC history. Additionally, the Deacons threw for a program record 43 touchdowns during the 2022 season.
Under Warren Ruggiero and Dave Clawson's tutelage, the last three starting quarterbacks at Wake Forest have earned All-ACC honors when they were a starter (John Wolford, 2017; Jamie Newman, 2019; Sam Hartman, 2021 & 2022).
Finally, Wake Forest is an astounding 20-4 at home since the start of the 2019 season thanks to the incredible atmosphere created by Wake Forest's fans and students inside Truist Field over the past few seasons.
