Springfield, Mass. – January 28, 2025 – Springfield College football graduate student Arsen Shtefan (West Hartford, Conn.) and senior Grady Roadman (Shrewsbury, Mass.) have both earned spots on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Teams for their hard work on the field and in the classroom this fall.

Shtefan, who earned his second straight Academic All-America nod, was placed on the First Team this year after being placed on the Second Team a season ago, while Roadman is a first time Academic All-American with his selection to the Second Team this year. Shtefan and Roadman are the 17th and 18th Academic All-Americans in program history, while Shtefan is only the third in program history to be selected more than once for the prestigious honor.

The 2024 Academic All-America® Football Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. Honorees must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average on a 4.00 scale and must compete in 90-percent of the institutions games played. Shtefan and Roadman were two of just 50 Division III student-athletes for the honor and were the only student-athletes from the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) and only two of four from the New England region picked this season.

Shtefan, a business administration major with a 3.64 grade point average, recorded a Division III leading 1,716 yards on the ground this fall, which were the most for Springfield since Jordan Wilcox posted 1,786 yards in 2017. Shtefan also ranked third in the nation in rushing touchdowns with 21 and fifth in the country with 132 rushing yards per game and helped the Pride break the Division III single season rushing record with 5,557 yards. In four years on Alden Street, Shtefan appeared in 42 games and rushed 647 times for 3,869 yards to go along with 39 touchdowns. He averaged 6.06 yards per rush this year, which ranked 28th nationally, and 5.98 yards per rush for his career. 
 
Roadman, an education major with a 3.98 grade point average, paved the way for Springfield to have the nation's top rushing offense as the Pride lead all of college football with 427.5 rushing yards per game. Roadman also helped the Springfield offense total 5,557 rushing yards, the most in the history of Division III and a new program record, while the Pride's 583 points scored and 808 rushing attempts were the most ever in the 134-year history of the program. The Pride also ranked second nationally in Division III in third down conversions, succeeding at a 51.9% clip.

This season, Springfield won its fourth consecutive New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship title and a program record 12 wins under AP Division III National Coach of the Year and Walter Camp Division III Coach of the Year Mike Cerasuolo. After winning the NEWMAC title, 55-20, at Maritime, Springfield earned a first round bye in the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament. The Pride hosted a second round game on Stagg Field against UMass-Dartmouth defeating the Corsairs, 54-27, before dethroning the defending national champions and second-ranked Cortland on the road, 40-28, in the third round of the tournament to reach the NCAA Quarterfinal for the first time since 2000.

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