Two Football Huskers Make Academic All-District Team

Nebraska defensive lineman Ben Stille and quarterback Adrian Martinez now advance to the Academic All-America ballot.

Joe Hudson | Jun 10, 2021

Nebraska Athletics Communications

Two Nebraska football players were honored Thursday as members of the 2020-21 Academic All-District VII Football Team.

Defensive lineman Ben Stille and quarterback Adrian Martinez are first-team selections and now advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot.

Stille is a first-team All-District selection for the second consecutive season. He carries 3.31 GPA while working on a master’s degree in nutrition and health sciences.

It is the first All-District award for Martinez, who has graduated with a degree in management and carries a 3.50 GPA.

Nebraska has a national-best 341 Academic All-America honorees, including 70 first-team selections in football.

The Academic All-America honorees will be announced in early July. The Academic All-District teams can be found at this link.

Published Jun 10, 2021

JOE HUDSON

Joe Hudson has operated a Husker-related website since 1995 and joined forces with David Max to form HuskerPedia (later renamed HuskerMax) in 1999. It began as a hobby during his 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter, a career that included stints at the Lincoln Star, Omaha World-Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer and Denver Post. In Denver, Joe was chief of the copy desk during his final 16 years at the Post. He is proud to have been involved in Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in both Philadelphia and Denver. Joe has been a Nebraska football fan since the mid-1960s during his childhood in Omaha. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in journalism and economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He resides a few freeway exits north of Colorado Springs and enjoys bicycling and walking his dogs in his spare time. You can reach him at joeroyhud@outlook.com.