Christian Kapp Named Academic All-District in Football

2017 Nov 16

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete Christian Kapp of Westchester 10501 has earned CoSIDA Academic All-District recognition.

Industrial and Management Engineering...Senior kicker...Third-year starter…Has made 7 of 12 field goals and 37 of 37 extra points...First on team in scoring (60 points)…Averages 63.0 yards per kickoff with 31 touchbacks in 53 attempts…Liberty League Special Teams Performer of the Week twice...All-Liberty League Second Team...2016: Made 9 of 12 field goals and 32 of 32 extra points...First on team in scoring (59)...Averaged 57.7 yards per kickoff with nine touchbacks in 51 attempts...Liberty League Special Teams Performer of the Week once...All-Liberty League Second Team...2015: Made 6 of 11 field goals and 37 of 38 extra points...First on team in scoring (55)…Averaged 55.5 yards per kickoff with seven touchbacks in 56 attempts…Liberty League Special Teams Performer of the Week once...Team was Liberty League co-champions...Team played in ECAC Bowls in 2014, 2015 and 2016 (2-1)...CoSIDA Academic All-District in 2016...Dean's List...Liberty League All-Academic three times...Fred Mitchell Award Watch List...SAAC…Fellowship of Christian Athletes…Co-founder of Students for Service, volunteer organization that assists in community weekly...Intern at W.L. Gore Associates (operations specialist)...Intern at Irving Tissue and MFM Contracting.

For additional information about Christian visit the team's roster page at http://www.rpiathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=football and click on his name for his entire bio with statistics.

The Engineers, who are coached by Ralph Isernia, are 8-2. Rensselaer travels to No. 13 Wesley College (9-1; 9-0 NJAC) for the first round of the NCAA Playoffs on Saturday at noon. RPI, which is making its fifth appearance in the national tournament, and Wesley have never faced one another.

Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is America's oldest technological research university. For nearly two centuries, the Institute has been a driving force behind breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every arena-from transportation and infrastructure to business, medicine, outer space, and cyberspace.

As it approaches its bicentennial anniversary, the Institute continues to define The New Polytechnic, a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and research that uses advanced technologies to enable fresh collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and regions, in order to answer the global challenges of our day.