INDIANAPOLIS – Ohio Dominican junior wide receiver Cory Contini and redshirt senior offensive lineman Andrew Lorenz were honored to the 2017 Academic All-America® Division II Football Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Tuesday.
 
They are the second and third football selections in Great Midwest Athletic Conference history after Malone’s Austin Cary earned the same recognition in his senior year of 2016.
 
Both Contini and Lorenz are repeat selections to the distinguished list for their work on and off the field.
 
Contini (Dover, OH / Dover HS), the 2017 Great Midwest Offensive Back of the Year, was a CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American as one of just two student-athletes selected at his position. Lorenz (Dublin, OH / Bishop Watterson HS) earned second-team honors as he pursues his MBA in post-graduate studies.
 
Both Contini and Lorenz were CoSIDA Academic All-District selections for Super Region 1 in the previous stage of voting and each player received D2CCA First Team All-Region honors.
 
Contini was the league leader with 1,186 yards receiving in 10 games as Ohio Dominican seized the league’s second offering of the conference championship trophy. He tied for the league lead with 14 touchdowns as a wide out and was the first player in Great Midwest history to have four receiving TD’s in a single game.
 
Contini also finished the year ranked second in receptions with 72 as the Panthers finished their first campaign in the G-MAC at 7-3 with seven consecutive wins. He sports a 3.93 GPA while majoring in accounting.
 
Lorenz finished his career as a veteran anchor on the offensive lineat the center position and earned first-team all-conference honors. Lorenz is in the MBA program and carried a 3.83 undergraduate GPA in accounting and finance.
 
He helped power a Panther offense that was among the nation's best. At the end of the regular season, ODU ranked fifth in the country in total offense (510.5 yards per game), third in passing offense (343.6 yards per game) and 17th in scoring (39.5 points per game.).