Zumbrun, Geffert Named to Academic All-District Team

Steve Zumbrun

Jeff Geffert

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College of Wooster football players Steve Zumbrun (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Central Catholic) and Jeff Geffert (Mentor, Ohio / Mentor) were each selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team, with Zumbrun earning first-team honors and Geffert second-team, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced on Thursday.

Zumbrun, who will be placed on the national ballot for Academic All-American® consideration, has started all nine games on the offensive line for the Fighting Scots this fall. The 6-4, 270-pound senior right guard leads the team in knockdown blocks with 58, according to the coaching staff, while playing an integral role on a youthful offense that has seen significant improvement throughout the 2007 season. Wooster was averaging 14.4 points and 241.6 yards of total offense during the first five games, and has improved to 30.0 points and 398.5 yards over the last four. A psychology major and three-time member of the Dean’s List, Zumbrun competes as a thrower for the Scots’ track & field team as well.

Geffert, also a senior, was a preseason All-American at cornerback at the start of this year and has made the successful shift to free safety. He ranks fourth on Wooster in tackles with 58 (29 solos, 29 assists) and been part of three turnovers, recovering two fumbles, one of which he returned 33 yards for a touchdown at Case Western Reserve University (Sept. 22), and intercepting one pass. Additionally, Geffert, who was a first-team all-region and all-North Coast Athletic Conference pick last season, serves as the holder on kicks (8-for-11 on field goals, 22-for-22 on extra points). Outside of the gridiron, the four-time Dean’s List honoree is majoring in communication studies with a minor in Spanish, while serving as the sports director of the campus radio station and volunteering with Every Woman’s House.

Zumbrun and Geffert and the rest of the Scots’ 18-member senior class will play their final game this Saturday, Nov. 10, as they host Kenyon College (2-7, 1-5 NCAC) at 1 p.m. The game will help sort out the final standings, as Wooster enters in a tie for fifth-place and could end up as high as third-place.

The academic all-district teams are determined by CoSIDA via a vote of top players with minimum 3.20 GPA’s. Wooster’s nominees go up against student-athletes from the college division (NCAA Div. II and III, and NAIA) in the five-state district of Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.