{"id":89992,"date":"2024-12-10T12:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=89992"},"modified":"2024-12-10T12:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:07:04","slug":"9-toledo-football-players-earn-all-mac-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/12_10_2024\/9-toledo-football-players-earn-all-mac-honors","title":{"rendered":"9 Toledo Football Players Earn All-MAC Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seniors\u00a0Maxen Hook,\u00a0Jerjuan Newton\u00a0and\u00a0Jacquez Stuart\u00a0led a group of nine Rockets who earned 2024 All-MAC honors, the Mid-American Conference announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hook, a safety from New Palestine, Indiana, earned first-team All-MAC honors for the third consecutive season. He also earned third-team All-MAC honors as a redshirt freshman in 2021, making him just the third Rocket ever to make an All-MAC team in four seasons. The others were safety Barry Church (2006-09) and offensive lineman Nick Kaczur (2001-04), both of whom had lengthy careers in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Newton, a wide receiver from St. Peterburg, Florida, earned first-team All-MAC for a second consecutive season. He also earned second-team honors in 2022. Running back\u00a0Jacquez Stuart\u00a0earned first-team honors as a kickoff returner for a\u00a0second consecutive season. The three seniors were joined on the All-MAC first-team by junior wide receiver\u00a0Junior Vandeross III.<\/p>\n<p>Second-team honorees were senior defensive tackle\u00a0Darius Alexander, junior cornerback\u00a0Avery Smith\u00a0and redshirt freshman punt returner Bryan Hammer. Senior linebacker\u00a0Daniel Bolden\u00a0and sophomore offensive lineman\u00a0Ethan Spoth\u00a0made the third team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89993\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89993\" class=\"wp-image-89993\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxen_Hook-_Toledo_vs_UMass_09-07-2024-SIDE.jpg\" alt=\"In-game football photo of Rocket senior Maxen Hook,\u00a0a safety from New Palestine, Indiana, who earned first-team All-MAC honors for the third consecutive season.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxen_Hook-_Toledo_vs_UMass_09-07-2024-SIDE.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Maxen_Hook-_Toledo_vs_UMass_09-07-2024-SIDE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Maxen Hook, a safety from New Palestine, Indiana, earned first-team All-MAC honors for the third consecutive season.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safety Maxen Hook becomes only the third Rocket to make All-MAC four times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"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\/89992"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89996,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89992\/revisions\/89996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}