AUSTIN, Texas – Augustana football kicker/punter Jake Pecina has been named to the College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-America Second Team as a punter, announced Tuesday by the organization.
 
Pecina was also named to the Don Hansen All-America honorable mention list, D2CCA Football All-Super Region 3 team and is a three-time All-NSIC First Team member. The two-way special teams weapon was ninth in the country with a 43.0 punt average. A certified field flipper, Pecina stuck 16 punts inside the 20 and struck 13 punts for at least 50 yards. He also went 8 of 12 on field goals with a school-record 57-yarder against Wayne State Sept. 15.
 
The special teams ace adds to the Augustana football legacy that now consists of 39 CSC Academic All-America honors, including at least one in each of the last five seasons.
 
1972 - Pat McNerney, 1st
1973 - Pat McNerney, 1st
1974 - Jim Clemens, 1st
1975 - Jim Clemens, 1st
1975 - Roger Goebel, 2nd
1977 - Stan Biodni, 1st
1977 - Dee Jay Donlin, 2nd
1977 - Roger Goebel, 2nd
1978 - Bob Timmons, 2nd
1980 - Bill Dannehl, 1st
1986 - David Gubbrud, 1st
1987 - David Gubbrud, 1st
1988 - David Gubbrud, 1st
1989 - David Gubbrud, 1st
1996 - Mitch Pruett, 1st
1997 - Thayne Munce, 1st
2008 - Jason Donnelly, 1st
2010 - Dan Schoen, 2nd
2016 - Bryson Hamilton, 2nd
2016 - Kirby Hora, 2nd
2017 - Kirby Hora, 1st
2017 - Joey Newman, 2nd
2017 - Avram Tynes
2018 - Kirby Hora, 1st (Academic All-American of the Year)
2021* - Eli Weber, 1st
2021* - Luke Fritsch, 2nd
2021 - Eli Weber, 1st 
2021 - Luke Fritsch, 2nd
2021 - T.J. Liggett, 2nd
2022 - T.J. Liggett, 1st
2022 - Eli Weber, 1st
2022 - Ben Limburg, 1st
2022 - Mitchell Goodbary, 2nd
2022 - Peyton Buckley, 2nd
2023 – Peyton Buckley, 1st
2023 – Mitchell Goodbary, 2nd
2024 - Peyton Buckley, 1st
2024 - Jarod Epperson, 1st
2025 - Jake Pecina, 2nd

*Awarded in spring of 2021 due to COVID-19 
 
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