{"id":70309,"date":"2021-12-03T03:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=70309"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:16:41","slug":"eleven-rockets-earn-all-mac-distinctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/12_03_2021\/eleven-rockets-earn-all-mac-distinctions","title":{"rendered":"Eleven Rockets Earn All-MAC Distinctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven members of the University of Toledo football team earned All-MAC honors, the league office announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/All_MAC_Story_Header_copy_71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-70311\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/All_MAC_Story_Header_copy_71.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/All_MAC_Story_Header_copy_71.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/All_MAC_Story_Header_copy_71-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>The 11 honorees are the most for Toledo since placing 12 players on All-MAC teams in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way were five first-team selections, the most since 2017. Senior offensive lineman\u00a0Bryce Harris, senior defensive backs\u00a0Tycen Anderson\u00a0and\u00a0Samuel Womack, junior running back\u00a0Bryant Koback, and junior outside linebacker\u00a0Jamal Hines\u00a0were all placed on the first team.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, Womack, and Hines make up the first defensive first-team trio for Toledo since 1997, when cornerback Clarence Love, linebacker Marcus Matthews, and defensive lineman Jason Richards each earned first-team honors on the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Senior linebacker\u00a0Jonathan Jones\u00a0and junior defensive end\u00a0Desjuan Johnson\u00a0were placed on the second team, as was sophomore wide receiver\u00a0Devin Maddox, who was named All-MAC as a return specialist.<\/p>\n<p>Representing the Rockets on the third team are senior offensive lineman\u00a0Vitaliy Gurman, junior linebacker\u00a0Dyontae Johnson, and freshman safety\u00a0Maxen Hook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/12_03_2021\/eleven-rockets-earn-all-mac-distinctions\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/All_MAC_Story_Header_copy_71-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Graphic that reads 2021 Toledo Football ALL MAC\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>The 11 honorees are the most for Toledo since placing 12 players on All-MAC teams in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":70311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70313,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70309\/revisions\/70313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}