Thompson Adds All-American Honors To His Bio
Collin Thompson was named to the D3football.com All-American Fourth Team. He becomes the 31st Concordia player to earn All-American honors in the program’s history and first since 2019,
MOORHEAD, Minn. (12/18/23)---You can officially add the title of All-American to senior Collin Thompson's (Thatcher, Ariz.) bio. Thompson parlayed a record-tying season into All-American honors as he was named to the D3football.com All-American Fourth Team.
Thompson becomes the 31st Concordia player to earn All-American honors in the program's history. He is also the first since 2019, when Alex Berg and Willie Julkes received the award.
The All-American award follows Thompson being named to the D3football.com All-Region 6 First Team, the MIAC Most Outstanding Lineman (Mike Stam Award) and MIAC All-Conference.
This year was the 25th anniversary of D3football.com naming an All-American Team. The first D3football.com All-America team was awarded in 1999 and is, along with the AFCA All-America team, the only ones recognized in the NCAA record book. Players are nominated by schools in November and December for the D3football.com All-Region team and are then considered for All-American.
Thompson tied the school record for tackles for a loss in a single season. He finished 2023 with 17.5 tackles for a loss. That total led all MIAC players and was in the Top 25 of NCAA Division III.
Thompson also tied for the team lead in sacks in the fall. He finished with 3.0 sacks, which was in the Top 15 of the MIAC. Thompson had 42 total tackles, with 29 solo take downs and 13 assisted tackles. He was fifth on the Cobbers in solo tackles.
Past Cobber All-Americans
2019 - Alex Berg, Willie Julkes
2017 - Chad Johnson
2013 - Nate Adams, Kenyon O'Brien
2012 - Brett Baune, Tom Knowlton
2007 - Grant Weller
2004 - Nick Didier, Josh Dietz, Andrew Passanante, Jordan Talge
1995 - Tim Lowery
1990 - Mike Gindorff, Shayne Lindsay
1988 - Terry Horan, Terry Storm
1986 - Jim Southwick, Russ Winkels (Honorable Mention)
1983 - Roger Lindahl
1982 - Doug McMillan
1981 - Jim Klug, Dave Rosengren
1980 - Ralph Halvorson, Mark Heysse
1979 - Dave Klug
1978 - Bob Beliveau, Allen Holm
1977 - Barry Bennett
1964 - Dave Heide