For the second year in a row, North Carolina’s Pete Mangum has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District Football Team, which honors student-athletes who excel both academically and athletically. N.C. State offensive tackle Mikel Overgaard, starter, was also named to the team.
The All-District teams, from which Academic All-America selections are made, were announced Thursday by the CoSIDA, the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Mangum, a junior defensive back from Raleigh, is majoring in biomedical engineering. A special teams starter in every game this season, he earned a scholarship for 2011 after playing for two years as a walk-on. He was named special teams MVP in 2010. In addition to maintaining outstanding grades (the award requires a minimum 3.3 GPA), he is active in community outreach along with the rest of the Carolina football team.
Mangum is a graduate of Leesville Road High School, where he was football MVP and team captain as well as a four-year member of the honor roll. He has been named to the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll in each year at UNC.
Overgaard is a 6-foot-6, 289-pound senior from Idaho who carries a 3.65 GPA in human biology and has started every game since transferring to State from Snow Junior College in Utah. He hopes to go to medical or dental school after graduating this spring.
Mangum and Overgaard are two of five ACC players to earn spots on the team. Joining them on the All-District 3 team for Division I football were:
Jonathan Plisco (punter, Old Dominion); Logan Kilgore (QB, Middle Tennessee State); Danny Coale (WR, Virginia Tech); Pat Kelly (WR, Liberty); Chris Drager (TE, Virginia Tech); A.J. Harris (RB, Elon); Kurt Odom (WR, Campbell); Joe Cline (OL, Davidson); Michael Hoag (OL, Wake Forest); James Normand (OL, Tennessee Tech); Mikel Overgaard (OL, NC State); Orry Frye (OL, Appalachian State); Adam Miller (OL, UT-Chattanooga); Matt Bevins (K, Liberty); Corey Watson (DB, Tennessee Tech); Peter Kidwell (DB, Davidson); Pete Mangum (DB, North Carolina); Troy Sanders (DB, Appalachian State); Colten Burris (LB, Campbell); Josh Carroll (LB, Austin Peay); Michael Rudisill (LB, Campbell); John Behm (LB, Davidson); Matt Milner (DL, East Carolina); Iosua Siliva (DL, Austin Peay); Reese Bulmash (DL, Austin Peay); Morgan Popham (DL, Davidson)