Senior offensive guard Ryan Durand earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors for the second year in a row.
Durand Earns Second Academic All-America Honor
11/26/2008 12:53:58 PM | Football
Congratulations to Orange football senior Ryan Durand (Leominster, Mass.), who is an ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America Second Team selection for the second consecutive year. The team is selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Durand, who was a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation 2008 Draddy Trophy, has started 34 games at right guard for the Orange. He is a three-time BIG EAST Academic All-Star and been named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll every semester. This season Durand and the Orange offensive line are blocking for record-setting running back Curtis Brinkley, who has gained 1,104 yards, which ranks seventh on Syracuse’s single-season record list and had a school-record five-consecutive 100-yard rushing games.
A health and exercise science major, Durand regularly participates in the ‘Cuse Cares Community Program, working with children, at risk youth and the elderly. Durand has furthered his educational experience as a physical therapy intern at Crouse Hospital and as an intern for an orthopedic doctor in 2007.
Durand joins a nine other Syracuse football student-athletes to be named Academic All-Americans, including first-team selections Fred Mautino (1960), Howard Goodman (1971), Tony Romano (1983), Tim Green (1984 and 1985), Pat O’Neill (1993), Mark Baniewicz (1999), Rich Scanlon (2003) and Matt Tarullo (2004), and second-team honorees Baniewicz (1998) and Nick Romeo (2003).
Durand and the Orange will play at #16 Cincinnati this Saturday (12:00 p.m., BIG EAST Network).
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