John Ramsdell Named Academic All-District in Football

2017 Nov 16

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete John Ramsdell of Haverhill 01830 has earned CoSIDA Academic All-District recognition.

Biomedical Engineering...Senior wide receiver...Second on team in receptions (19) and receiving yards (218)...Two touchdown catches...Twenty carries for 90 yards...Seven kick returns for 162 yards (23.1 avg)...All-Liberty League Second Team (athlete)...2016: Team-high 17 receptions for 175 yds...Team-high four touchdowns...Had 39 carries for 219 yds...Four touchdowns...All-Liberty League Honorable Mention...2015: Had 64 rushing yards, 144 receiving yards and 339 return yards...Scored five touchdowns...Liberty League Special Teams Performer of Week once…Team's Offensive Grinder Award…Team was Liberty League co-champions...Team played in ECAC Bowls in 2014, 2015 and 2016 (2-1)...CoSIDA Academic All-District in 2016 and 2015...Dean's List...Liberty League All-Academic three times...Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Vice President...Founders Award of Excellence...Research in materials science lab...MindSET (after-school program)...Volunteer at soup kitchen volunteer and Ronald McDonald House Charity.

For additional information about John 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.