Our SGI All-Iowa Football Team is focused on promoting the best former Iowa High School Preps for the 22 Iowa Colleges and Universities at the NAIA, D2, D3, and FCS Non-Scholarship Level (Drake Football) that we covered this fall.
7 SGI Teams made the Playoffs or a Bowl Game
In Division 3 Wartburg and Coe College both made the 40 team – NCAA D3 Playoffs. In NAIA – William Penn (set a school record in wins in their 138th year of playing football), Dordt, and Grand View all made the playoffs. Drake won the Pioneer League for the 3rd year in a row and made the NCAA FCS Playoffs, and Upper Iowa (NCAA D2) also like William Penn set a program record in wins (120 years plus of playing football) and won the Albanese Candy Bowl Game.
The Captain of the SGI All-Iowa Team Defensive Team is LB – John Argo
The captain of the team was very difficult for us to pick as there were so many deserving players. So, we leaned as a tiebreaker for a player who was closing a great career on the best team in the state that we cover the NAIA National Champion Grand View Vikings. It would have been easy to choose Keenan Tyler, Jackson Filer, Jake Walker, etc. as on the defensive side of the ball there were so many top performers.
John Argo – Grand View Vikings senior who capped off his great career with this crucial 4th down stop in the semi-finals. His last play on Grand View’s Home field at Duke Williams Stadium in Des Moines was a stop that led his team into the National Title Game…like a Captain does.
The SGI All-Iowa Team is packed with All-Americans on the Defensive Side of the Ball, who all had stellar seasons.
We announced the Offense winners on our SGI Podcast last night (Spotify Podcast below)
We had some fun on the podcast of course trying to come up with Chris Berman Style Nicknames for the winners. I hope you enjoy those as we loved coming up with them for the podcast.
I hope you will enjoy our fun attempts to recognize these great players on the podcast. What a great football season it was for the Iowa Teams capped by Grand View winning the NAIA National Title.
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