Austin Stidham Earns Third CSC Academic All-America Honor

TROY, Ala. – Troy left tackle Austin Stidham made history Tuesday, earning his third College Sports Communications (formally CoSIDA) Academic All-America honor. He becomes just the second student-athlete in school history to earn the honor three times. Stidham was named to the first team after appearing the last two seasons on the second team.

A three-time All-Sun Belt First Team selection, Stidham was a finalist for the Campbell Trophy, presented annually by the National Football Foundation to the country's top student-athlete, an award that has been dubbed the Academic Heisman.

Stidham played all 917 offensive snaps this past season for the 2022 Sun Belt and Cure Bowl champions allowing just four sacks while committing only two penalties.

A native of Russellville, Ala., Stidham graduated with a degree in biomedical sciences with a 3.92 GPA, carrying only three Bs his entire undergraduate career, and he currently has a 4.0 GPA as he peruses his master's degree in education. Stidham passed on a lucrative medical career to follow his passion as a STEM teacher and football coach.

Over his five-year career with the Trojans, Stidham started a program record 62 games, amassed 4,014 snaps, allowed just 14 sacks in 2,331 pass blocking situations and was called for only 13 penalties.

Stidham joins Dave Banks (1983-85) from the Troy baseball program as the only three-time Academic All-American in school history.

College Sports Communicators began the distinguished Academic All-America program in 1952, and since then, has honored more than 38,000 deserving student-athletes from numerous sports across all divisions with these elite Academic All-America® scholar-athlete honors.

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