CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - North Carolina tailback Elijah Hood and place-kicker Nick Weiler have been named to the 2015 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Football Team, the league announced Wednesday.
Hood, an information sciences major from Charlotte, N.C., is one of seven players named to the Academic All-ACC team who also earned first-team All-ACC honors. As a sophomore in 2015, he rushed for 1,463 yards, which ranks second on the UNC single-season rushing chart behind only Don McCauley (1,720 in 1970). Hood scored 17 rushing touchdowns and rushed for 100 yards in a game on seven occasions, including a career-high 220 in a win over NC State.
Weiler, a business administration major from Fairfax, Va., made 20 of 23 field goal attempts and set the single-season school record with 127 points, including all 67 extra point attempts. Weiler also did an outstanding job with kickoffs with 55 touchbacks and was named a Lou Groza Award semifinalist.
North Carolina had a season to remember in 2015, going 11-1 in the regular season and making its first ever ACC Championship Game appearance. The Tar Heels kick off the 2016 season vs. Georgia in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta on Sept. 3.
- UNC Communications
Hood, an information sciences major from Charlotte, N.C., is one of seven players named to the Academic All-ACC team who also earned first-team All-ACC honors. As a sophomore in 2015, he rushed for 1,463 yards, which ranks second on the UNC single-season rushing chart behind only Don McCauley (1,720 in 1970). Hood scored 17 rushing touchdowns and rushed for 100 yards in a game on seven occasions, including a career-high 220 in a win over NC State.
Weiler, a business administration major from Fairfax, Va., made 20 of 23 field goal attempts and set the single-season school record with 127 points, including all 67 extra point attempts. Weiler also did an outstanding job with kickoffs with 55 touchbacks and was named a Lou Groza Award semifinalist.
North Carolina had a season to remember in 2015, going 11-1 in the regular season and making its first ever ACC Championship Game appearance. The Tar Heels kick off the 2016 season vs. Georgia in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game in Atlanta on Sept. 3.
- UNC Communications
