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08/08/22 - Luke Herzog, rSr/2025, Saint Thomas + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALL-PIONEER FOOTBALL LEAGUE TEAM (COACHES): SO LB Luke Herzog,...Herzog, a native of Mendota Heights, Minn., was named the conference Defensive Freshman of the Year in 2021. His 47 tackles included 8.5 tackles for loss and four sacks on the second-best total defense (292.6) in conference play. - Saint Thomas Football

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ILB Luke Herzog, Saint Thomas
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08/08/22 - Matt Weimann, rSr/2023, Saint Thomas + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALL-PIONEER FOOTBALL LEAGUE TEAM (COACHES): SR OL Matt Weimann,...Weimann was the team's lone All-PFL first-team selection in 2021. The Oakdale, Minn., native helped propel the Purple to the second-best rushing attack in the conference at 192.5 yards per game in league play. St. Thomas' 24 rushing touchdowns against Pioneer foes ranked second among league teams. - Saint Thomas Football

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C Matt Weimann, Saint Thomas
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08/08/22 - Kolby Gartner, Sr/2024, Saint Thomas + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALL-PIONEER FOOTBALL LEAGUE TEAM (COACHES): JR P Kolby Gartner,...Gartner, a native of St. Michael, Minn., is a rare two-sport D-I athlete as he also was a starting pitcher in baseball. His 2022 spring season on the diamond included a three-hit road shutout of the Minnesota Gophers. Last fall on the football field he averaged 44.4 yards per punt on 33 chances included four downed inside the 20-yard line. - Saint Thomas Football

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P Kolby Gartner, Saint Thomas
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08/08/22 - Luke Glenna, rSr/2023, Saint Thomas + More +

2022 PRESEASON ALL-PIONEER FOOTBALL LEAGUE TEAM (COACHES): SR DB Luke Glenna,...Glenna, of Edina, Minn., was the team's leader with 65 tackles and five pass breakups, four interceptions, and two fumble recoveries. - Saint Thomas Football

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FS Luke Glenna, Saint Thomas
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11/30/21 - Luke Herzog, rSr/2025, Saint Thomas + More +

2021 PIONEER DEFENSIVE FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR (COACHES): Luke Herzog, St. Thomas,...Herzog, of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, recorded 47 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, and four sacks in his freshman campaign. His four sacks all came in PFL play, and he ranked 10th among PFL defenders in total sacks. Herzog also ranked ninth among PFL defenders with eight tackles for loss in league action. His significant two-week span matched Adebayo, with a season-best 2.5 tackles for loss at Stetson followed by a season-best two sacks against Marist. - Pioneer Football League

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ILB Luke Herzog, Saint Thomas
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11/30/21 - Hope Adebayo, rSr/2025, Saint Thomas + More +

2021 PIONEER FRESHMAN OFFENSIVE FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR (COACHES): Hope Adebayo, St. Thomas,...Adebayo, of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, finished his first season with 658 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns, finishing 12th among FCS freshmen in yards gained and as one of only six freshmen with double-digit touchdown runs. During the season, Adebayo made his mark in back-to-back games, posting 182 yards and four touchdowns at Stetson in Week 7 and following that with 191 yards and two touchdowns in Week 9 against Marist. - Pioneer Football League

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RB Hope Adebayo, Saint Thomas
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11/20/21 - Tommy Dolan, rSr/2022, Saint Thomas + More +

Joe Hird made two of St. Thomas' three straight interceptions late in the first half as the Tommies scored touchdowns off of each to break away from Presbyterian 54-15 in a season-ender on Saturday. St. Thomas (7-3) ended its inaugural Division I season with a 6-2 record in the Pioneer Football League after making the jump from D-III. Presbyterian finished 2-9, 0-8. The teams battled through four lead changes with Hird's first interception setting up a Nick Rice 40-yard touchdown run to put the Tommies ahead for good, 21-15. Presbyterian's next two possessions ended in points for St. Thomas as Luke Glenna returned an interception 27 yards and Hird's second pick set up Hope Adebayo's 1-yard TD run for a 35-15 halftime lead. Ren Hefley completed 16 of 28 passes for the Blue Hose with one touchdown against the three picks. Four passers compiled 323 yards through the air for Presbyterian. The Tommies rushed for 227 yards and seven touchdowns with Rice leading at 101 yards gained. - AP College Football

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QB Tommy Dolan, Saint Thomas
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11/13/21 - Hope Adebayo, rSr/2025, Saint Thomas + More +

Hope Adebayo ran for 105 yards and two touchdowns and St. Thomas (Minnesota) edged Drake 21-14 on Saturday. Nick Rice had 94 yards rushing and a touchdown for the Tommies. He carried the ball eight times for 31 yards as St. Thomas ran out the final 5 1/2 minutes after the Bulldogs closed within a touchdown. Hope scored on 2- and 8-yard runs in the second quarter to give the Tommies (6-3, 5-2 Pioneer Football League) a 14-0 lead at the half. Brandon Langdok put Drake on the board with a 3-yard run in the third quarter and after an interception, the Bulldogs drove it close. However, Isaiah Hall blocked a field goal attempt and with an unsportsmanlike penalty tacked on, St. Thomas got the ball back at the Drake 43. Rice covered those yards on three caries, the last going for 28. Ian Corwin threw a 6-yard touchdown passes to Caden Meis with 5:26 to play for Drake (2-7, 1-5). - AP College Football

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RB Hope Adebayo, Saint Thomas
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10/30/21 - Hope Adebayo, rSr/2025, Saint Thomas + More +

Hope Adebayo ran for 191 yards and two touchdowns and St. Thomas continued to prosper in its inaugural Division I season, defeating Marist 27-7 on Saturday. In addition to Adebayo's two TDs, Cade Sexauer threw a 51-yard touchdown pass to Max Zimmerman and ran for another score. St. Thomas, dismissed from its Division III conference, was granted a waiver to jump straight to Division I. The Tommies are 4-1 in the Pioneer Football League and 5-2 overall. Marist's Austin Day completed 9 of 16 passes for 101 yards and the Red Foxes (3-4, 3-2) were held to 62 yards rushing on 30 carries. Day had a 2-yard run for Marist's only score. The Tommies held Marist to 167 yards while gaining 392. - AP College Football

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RB Hope Adebayo, Saint Thomas
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09/25/21 - Cade Sexauer, rSr/2023, Saint Thomas + More +

Cade Sexauer threw for 194 yards and two touchdowns and Tom Loeffler ran for two touchdowns and St. Thomas (MN) beat Butler 36-0 in its Pioneer Football League debut on Saturday. St. Thomas (2-1, 1-0) went 35-1 in its last 36 games played on campus to close out its Division III membership, losing only in that span to eventual NCAA runner-up UW Oshkosh 34-31 in the 2016 NCAA playoffs. The Tommies currently have a 28-game home-field regular-season win streak. Loeffler scored on a 2-yard touchdown run to put the Tommies up 7-0 in the first quarter. Early in the second, Sexauer led a 10-play, 92-yard drive that lasted almost six minutes and ended when he threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Josh Komis. Loeffler closed out the half with a 5-yard touchdown run for 22-0 advantage. Bret Bushka threw for 177 yards and an interception for Butler (2-2, 0-1). - AP College Football

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QB Cade Sexauer, Saint Thomas
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09/11/21 - Tommy Dolan, rSr/2022, Saint Thomas + More +

Louis Hyde kicked a 39-yard field goal with 59 seconds to play and St. Thomas rallied for a historic 12-9 win over Michigan Tech in its FCS debut on Saturday. Tight end Aiden Carlson pulled the Tommies into a 9-9 tie when he recovered quarterback Tommy Dolan's fumble on 1st and goal in the end zone with 5:43 to play but the extra point was blocked. St. Thomas forced a three-and-out before putting together the winning drive, getting 24 yards.

The Division II Huskies quickly picked up 40 yards before Johnson Fallah picked of Will Ark's pass with 14 seconds to play to seal the win. St. Thomas, which had received NCAA approval to jump from Division III to D-I in the summer of 2020, was the only FCS or FBS team not to play a game last fall or spring. Then the 2021 season opener was one of three games canceled because of COVID-19, meaning the Tommies went 95 weeks between games. It is the first time in 28 years a school has jumped two divisions, the last being Buffalo and Dayton in 1993. Those schools only moved up in football that year but St. Thomas joined the Pioneer League for football and the Summit League for 18 other sports. - AP College Football

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QB Tommy Dolan, Saint Thomas
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07/22/20 - Tommy Dolan, rSr/2022, Saint Thomas + More +

When Pioneer Football League Commissioner Patty Viverito first heard about St. Thomas, which was essentially kicked out of its conference for being too good, she thought, "Oh, come on. This is crazy." Fast forward several months, after the St. Paul university decided to make the big jump from Division III to Division I. Viverito discovered that some within her league had the same trepidations about adding St. Thomas as the MIAC did when giving it the boot. "I thought people would be 100 percent enthusiastic," Viverito said. "And I got my first phone call from a skeptical person in our league who said, 'Now, wait a minute, I have a hard enough time competing in the current Pioneer Football League lineup. How am I going to compete against St. Thomas? They're too good.'?"

Viverito's response was pretty simple. "Whenever you can find a member who will make your league better, you act," she said. St. Thomas, with its 126-21 record under longtime coach Glenn Caruso - including two NCAA championship appearances the past eight seasons - just seemed to fit. St. Thomas, which received clearance from the NCAA last week to start the five-year process, will begin playing at the D-I level in 2021-22. When the football team joins the Pioneer Football League, it will be one of 11 teams in the non-scholarship, football-only conference, spread from California to New York and Minnesota to Florida. The conference champion automatically qualifies for the FCS playoffs. - Minneapolis Star Tribune

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QB Tommy Dolan, Saint Thomas
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06/18/20 - Josh Parks, rSr/2020, Saint Thomas + More +

Though St. Thomas did not get final approval Wednesday for its proposed move to Division I, the NCAA pushed it one step closer to that goal. The NCAA's Strategic Vision and Planning Committee has recommended a proposal to the Division I Council that would allow qualified schools to reclassify directly from Division III to Division I. The Council put the plan into the NCAA's legislative pipeline Wednesday, with a vote scheduled for April 2021. In the meantime, the Council said it would "be receptive to a formal waiver request" from St. Thomas to begin the process sooner.

St. Thomas has been waiting for months to get NCAA approval to move directly from D-III to D-I, which is not allowed under current rules. A statement from the school called Wednesday's action "encouraging news," adding that athletic director Phil Esten immediately will begin working on the waiver application. The Tommies were voted out of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference last May and will leave the league in July 2021. The Summit League, which has invited the Tommies to join, will help the school submit the waiver request. - Minneapolis Star Tribune

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RB Josh Parks, Saint Thomas
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01/15/20 - Josh Parks, rSr/2020, Saint Thomas + More +

2019 AFCA DIVISION III COACHES' SECOND TEAM ALL-AMERICAN: RB Josh Parks, Sr., St. Thomas (Minn.),...Practiced but didn't play one season as walk-on with Division I Minnesota Gophers...Played four seasons (41 games) at St. Thomas, helped team build 39-7 record; win three solo or shared conference championships; make two NCAA playoff appearances; ranked in D-III top 25 all four seasons...2019 MIAC Player of the Year...Set school records for touchdowns (60) and rushing yards (4,180)… averaged 112 ypg all-purpose yards on career...Broke conference record for most rushing TDs in MIAC games (45)...Had 22 career 100-plus yard rushing days despite being co-starter his first two seasons...Recorded two of the five 100-plus yard rushing games allowed by top-10 ranked St. John's over the Johnnies' last 45 games...Recorded one of the two 100-plus yard rushing games allowed by top-10 ranked Bethel over the Royals' last 30 games. - St. Thomas Football

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