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Academic All-American honors for
Monmouth’s Dante Daniels
Release Date: December 1, 2006
 MONMOUTH,
Ill. – Monmouth College senior running back Dante Daniels (Waukegan,
Ill./Gurnee-Warren) was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-American College Division first team, becoming the first
Fighting Scots football player to be so honored since Robb Long was
recognized for his athletic and academic prowess in 1983.
Daniels rewrote the record book at Monmouth this season, becoming
the school’s first 1,000-yard rusher since 1993 while racking up a
school-record 1,557 yards, good for third in the nation in Division
III. His 155.7 yards per game average was second among Division III
running backs. Daniels’ 1,689 all-purpose yards, which ranks him
sixth nationally, is also a school record, and he set the new
standard for rushing with five games over 200 yards. The senior
tailback twice this season set the single-game rushing record, which
now stands at 247 yards, and he led the Fighting Scots in scoring
(96).
The Scots finished with a 7-3 record and tied Ripon for second place
in the Midwest Conference. In Daniels’ two seasons, Monmouth has
compiled a 17-4 record and averaged nearly 34 points per game.
“Dante is everything we could have expected and wanted when we
recruited him,” said head coach Steve Bell. “It is very gratifying
to see a young man get rewarded for doing the right thing both in
the classroom and on the field.
“This is a tremendous way for Dante to end his collegiate football
career.”
A member of the Dean’s List and named the MWC’s Offensive Player of
the Year in 2006, Daniels was also an all-conference selection in
2005. He joined graduated quarterback Mitch Tanney from 2005 as the
second Fighting Scot in as many years to be named to the ESPN The
Magazine Academic All-District V College Division first team when
that selection was announced in early November.
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