Dec. 13, 2005
Baylor junior punter Daniel Sepulveda earned second-team All-America honors from The Associated Press, the media organization announced Tuesday. He becomes the third player in school history, joining halfback Ronnie Bull in 1961 and quarterback Don Trull in 1963, to earn both academic and athletic All-America honors in the same year.
Only the sixth two-time All-American in school history and the first since free safety Thomas Everett in 1985 and 1986, Sepulveda currently leads the Big 12 Conference and ranks second nationally in punting average at 46.18 yards per punt. That figure also ranks as the second-highest single-season average in Baylor history, just ahead of his 46.0 mark of a year ago. Sepulveda, who became the first sophomore to win the Ray Guy Award as the nation's top punter and earned third-team AP All-America honors as a sophomore in 2004, boasts a 44.85 career average, which ranks first all-time at Baylor and sixth in NCAA history for players with between 150 and 249 punts.
A native of Dallas, Texas, Sepulveda earned first-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors earlier this month with his 3.51 cumulative grade point average in accounting. He holds Baylor career records for punts of 50-plus yards (66) and punts of 60-plus yards (13).
In addition to the 2005 AP All-America honor, he also has earned second-team All-America recognition from both The Sporting News and Rivals.com, third-team All-America status from collegefootballnews.com and honorable-mention from Sports Illustrated.
Sepulveda captured 2005 first-team All-Big 12 honors from The Associated Press, ESPN.com, The Dallas Morning-News, Austin American-Statesman and San Antonio Express-News, while garnering second-team All-Big 12 status from the league's coaches, Kansas City Star, Houston Chronicle, Forth Worth Star-Telegram and Waco Tribune-Herald. Sepulveda was also named to the Express-News' Big 12 All-Decade second-team honor squad and earned first-team Academic All-Big 12 honors for the third consecutive season.
Baylor finished the 2005 season 5-6 overall and 2-6 in Big 12 play, the Bears' most successful season since 1995. During the 2005 campaign, Baylor snapped a 24-game road losing streak, won its first Big 12 road game and posted multiple Big 12 wins in the same season for the first time ever.
Baylor's 2005 football honorees include:
Jordan Adams
Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
Colin Allred
First-Team Academic All-Big 12
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches, Associated Press
Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week (Nov. 19)
Willie Andrews
First-Team All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches
Second-Team All-Big 12: Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Associated Press (both as a defensive back and as return specialist)
Anthony Arline
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches
Shawn Bell
First-Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VI
First-Team Academic All-Big 12
American Football Coaches Association Good Works Team
Will Blaylock
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches
Lee Chandler
First-Team Academic All-Big 12
Josh DeSisto
Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
Marcus Foreman
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches, Associated Press
Jamaal Harper
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Associated Press
Ryan Havens
Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week (Oct. 10)
Ben Hixson
First-Team Academic All-Big 12
Bennett Hoefer
Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
Ryan Jeffrey
Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
Jake La Mar
First Team Academic All-Big 12
Maurice Lane
First-Team All-Big 12: Associated Press, Dallas Morning News
Second-Team All-Big 12: Kansas City Star, Austin American-Statesman, San Antonio Express-News
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches
Lequalan McDonald
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches, Associated Press
Mike Miller
Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
Montez Murphy
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches, Associated Press
Jon Piorkowski
First-Team Academic All-Big 12
Shaun Rochon
First-Team All-Big 12: ESPN.com, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Waco Tribune-Herald
Second-Team All-Big 12: Kansas City Star
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches, Associated Press
Daniel Sepulveda
First-Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American
First-Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VI
First-Team Academic All-Big 12
Second-Team All-America: Associated Press, Rivals.com, The Sporting News
Honorable Mention All-America: Sports Illustrated
First Team All-Big 12: Associated Press, ESPN.com, Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, San Antonio Express-News
Second-Team All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches, Kansas City Star, Houston Chronicle, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Waco Tribune-Herald
Big 12 All-Decade Second Team: San Antonio Express-News
Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week (Nov. 19)
Phil Tran
First-Team Academic All-Big 12
C.J. Wilson
First-Team All-Big 12: Collegefootballnews.com, Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, San Antonio Express-News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Waco Tribune-Herald
Second-Team All-Big 12: Associated Press, Dallas Morning News
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches
Alton Widemon
Second-Team Academic All-Big 12
Dominique Zeigler
Second-Team All-Big 12: Big 12 Coaches
Honorable Mention All-Big 12: Associated Press
