Football | 4/9/2026 11:30:00 AM

IRVING, Texas (pacathletics.org) - The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced a record number of members for the 2026 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, which featured 35 student-athletes from five Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) programs.

Created in 2007, the NFF Hampshire Honor Society is one of the most comprehensive scholar-athlete initiatives in college athletics, recognizing football players from all divisions who have maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or higher throughout their college careers.

Nominated by their respective schools, members of the NFF Hampshire Honor Society must be either be a senior player, who will graduate this spring/summer, and just completed his final year of playing eligibility in 2025; or a graduated player or grad transfer, who has already earned a bachelor’s degree and competed in the 2025 season (even if the player has remaining eligibility and may return to play next season).

Case Western Reserve University led the PAC schools and all NCAA Division III teams with 23 honorees, which is also the most members from a single institution overall among all divisions in 2026. They were followed by Washington & Jefferson College and Westminster College with four, Allegheny College placed three on the list and Waynesburg University put one in this year's Honor Society.

The 2026 Honor Society class included 2,596 players from 365 schools qualified, establishing a new record for the largest class in 20-year history of the program. The initiative has now honored 23,568 student-athletes from 691 schools since its inception. 

In addition to this recognition for their academic excellence, nine were voted as College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® honorees. In addition to their academic efforts, 11 players were named to All-PAC teams for their play on the field in 2025.

The NFF Hampshire Honor Society capitalizes on the NFF’s National Scholar-Athlete program by greatly expanding the number of scholar-athletes the NFF can recognize each year. The program further strengthens the organization’s leadership role in encouraging academic performance by the student-athletes at the 774 colleges and universities with football programs nationwide.

The Hampshire Honor Society represents an important component in the organization's rich history as an innovator in promoting the scholar-athlete ideal, which began in 1959 with the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards.
   

PAC NFF Foundation Hampshire Honor Society honorees (35) * = CSC Academic All-District®  1 = 2024 First Team All-PAC / 2 = Second Team / HM = Honorable Mention
Name	School	Pos.	Hometown/High School
Fletcher Hammond	Allegheny	LB	Gibsonia, Pa./Deer Lakes
Ian Hutter	Allegheny	FB/LB	Mount Pleasant, Pa./Mount Pleasant
Donovan Mowry	Allegheny	DL	Youngwood, Pa./Hempfield
Alec Angello	Case Western Reserve	WR	Hershey, Pa./Hershey
Brady Bartusiak	Case Western Reserve	LB	Pittsburgh, Pa./Upper St. Clair
Matthew Bittel	Case Western Reserve	RB	North Grafton, Mass./Grafton
Henry Busch	Case Western Reserve	LB	Concord Township, Ohio/Riverside
Brian Caldwell Jr.	Case Western Reserve	WR	Philadelphia, Pa./St. Joseph's Prep
Dylan Cave	Case Western Reserve	WR	Malvern, Pa./Great Valley
Osi Chukwuocha* (1)	Case Western Reserve	DB	Wilmington, Del./Wilmington Friends
David Freedman*	Case Western Reserve	OL	Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville
Daniel King (2)	Case Western Reserve	LB	Mt. Lebanon, Pa./Mt. Lebanon
James Kline	Case Western Reserve	OL	Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon
Stefan Lopez* (1)	Case Western Reserve	RB	Essex Fells, N.J./West Essex
Luca Maravola	Case Western Reserve	DB	Grayslake, Ill./Grayslake Central
Cullen McDaniel	Case Western Reserve	DB	Malvern, Pa./Great Valley
Mason Mehl	Case Western Reserve	DB	Pittsburgh, Pa./Peters Township
Zach Miller	Case Western Reserve	OL	Hershey, Pa./Hershey
Owen Myer* (1)	Case Western Reserve	OL	Jefferson Hills, Pa./Thomas Jefferson
Caden Parlett	Case Western Reserve	RB	Napa, Calif./Justin-Siena
Jensen Perkovich	Case Western Reserve	WR	Joppa, Md./The John Carroll School
Sean Reilly* (HM)	Case Western Reserve	DL	Cincinnati, Ohio/St. Xavier
Gus Salopek (2)	Case Western Reserve	OL	Richmond Heights, Ohio/St. Ignatius
Shane Schwartz	Case Western Reserve	LB	Bethesda, Md./Bethesda Chevy Chase
Joseph Swarm* (2)	Case Western Reserve	DL	Potomac Falls, Va./Potomac Falls
TJ Yoder	Case Western Reserve	WR	State College, Pa./State College
Jalen Broxie* (HM)	W&J	DB	Coraopolis, Pa./Moon
Joey Lacey (2)	W&J	LB	Bristow, Va./Avalon School
Tyler Primrose (2)	W&J	DL	Pittsburgh, Pa./North Catholic
Preston Schry	W&J	DB	New Castle, Pa./Shenango
Thomas Burke III*	Waynesburg	QB	West Leechburg, Pa./Leechburg
Jack Bible*	Westminster	LB	Aliquippa, Pa./Central Valley
Kaden Crown	Westminster	DL	Lake Milton, Ohio/McDonald
Jake Miller	Westminster	QB	Pittsburgh, Pa./McKeesport
Dylan Sleva (1)	Westminster	LB	McDonald, Pa./Moon