Nov. 6, 2008

DALLAS (SMU) - Two SMU football student-athletes have been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Football Team, the College Sports Information Directors of America announced today. Punter Thomas Morstead and offensive lineman Mitch Enright were both first-team selections on the 24-man squad. This marks the second straight season Enright and Morstead have been so honored.

Enright, a native of Southlake, Texas, started all 12 games at center for SMU in 2007 and started the first two games of 2008 before suffering a hand injury. He was named to the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll and was a winner of a Conference USA Academic Medal in 2007 as well. Enright, who graduated with a degree in management in three years, is currently pursuing his MBA from SMU's Cox School of Business.

Morstead, a Pearland, Texas, native, has been a two-time member of the 13-man C-USA All-Academic Team and was a Conference USA Academic Medal winner and a member of the Commissioner's Honor Roll in 2006 and 2007. He has also been a three-time Ray Guy Award nominee and a two-time All-C-USA punter.

To be nominated for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Football Team, the student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) for his/her career. No athlete is eligible until he/she has reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution. In the cases of transfers, graduate students and junior college graduates, the athlete must have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution to be eligible.

CoSIDA selects Academic All-America teams in 12 programs: football, women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's track & field/cross country, women's track & field/cross country, men's at-large and women's at-large.

Enright, Morstead and the rest of the Mustang team return to the field on Saturday, Nov. 8, when SMU hosts Memphis for Homecoming at 2 p.m.