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| Delaware's Dan Mulhern is third team All-America |
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12:05 p.m., Dec. 19, 2002--University of Delaware senior linebacker Dan Mulhern has been named third team All-America in NCAA Division I-AA.
Mulhern, a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award as the top defensive player in Division I-AA football, earlier had been named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference All-East Division I-AA team for the second straight year and had earned All-Atlantic 10 Football Conference honors.
A 6-foot 3-inch, 225 pound senior captain from Strath-Haven High School in Wallingford, Pa., Mulhern was a fourth-year starter at linebacker for Delaware in 2002.
He led the team and ranked third in the Atlantic 10 with 126 tackles (10.5 per game) while also posting 13.5 tackles for loss and three sacks. He intercepted two passes and posted 10 or more tackles six times. He was named Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Week three times.
Mulhern never missed a game and started the final 42 contests of his career, posting 418 tackles to rank fourth all-time in Delaware history. He posted 10.5 sacks and intercepted nine passes, the most ever by a Blue Hen linebacker. He is one of only five players in UD history to record 100 or more tackles in two different seasons.
First team All-America selections who competed against the Fightin’ Blue Hens this year include offensive linemen Dwight Beard of the College of William & Mary and Charles Clarke of Georgia Southern University; defensive lineman Freddy Pesqueira of Georgia Southern; and linebacker Stephen Cooper of the University of Maine.
Second team selections include quarterback Brett Gordon of Villanova University; offensive lineman Mike Brigandi of Hofstra University; all purpose offensive player Chaz Williams of Georgia Southern; and linebacker Renauld Williams of Hofstra.
Third team selections include running back Stephan Lewis of the University of New Hampshire; defensive lineman Steve Anzalone of Northeastern University; and defensive back David Young of Georgia Southern.
Also, DaShaun Morris of Delaware State University was named to the first team offense as an all-purpose player.
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