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Bucknell's Dominic Lyles Named to FCS ADA Academic All-Star Team
1/6/2022 2:23:00 PM | Football
CLEVELAND – Bucknell's Dominic Lyles was named to the 2021 Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association Academic All-Star Team.
Lyles wrapped up his standout career with 1,149 yards and six touchdowns on 91 receptions. The senior captain will also graduate with a pair of school records. In the spring of 2021, he matched the school standard by catching 14 passes in a 6-0 shutout at Lehigh. This season, he hauled in touchdown passes of 31, 24 and 34 yards against Georgetown to tie the school record.
Despite missing Bucknell's first two games to illness, and final two games to injury, Lyles led the team in touchdown catches (3), ranked second in receiving yards (214) and was slotted tied for third in receptions (17). He paced the Bison in receiving yards in both 2019 (579) and the spring of 2021 (291); he went over 100 receiving yards in a single game three times in his career, doing so against Princeton in 2019 (108), Lehigh in the spring of 2021 (103) and against Georgetown in 2021 (110).
An international relations major, Lyles served as an intern investigator for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and as an extern for the Anne Arundel County Public Law Library. He also volunteers at the Children's National Medical Center and for Green New Deal Lewisburg.
Lyles has been heavily involved in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion on Bucknell's campus and beyond. He is the co-founder of the Bison Athletes of Color Affinity Group, a member of the Minority Undergraduate Law Society and a Black Lives Matter Student-Athlete representative. In addition, as a SAAC representative for the football team, he is a member of the social responsibility branch, which advocates for more active involvement in diversity and inclusion on and around campus.
This season, 50 student-athletes were recognized on the FCS Academic All-Star Team, including six from the Patriot League ranks. Football players from all FCS institutions are eligible for this award. Each nominee was required to have a minimum grade point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale) in undergraduate or graduate study and have been a starter or key player with legitimate athletics credentials. They must have reached their second year of athletics and academic standing at the nominated institution and have completed a minimum of one full academic year at the nominated institution. They also must have participated in 50 percent of the games played at their designated position.
Lyles wrapped up his standout career with 1,149 yards and six touchdowns on 91 receptions. The senior captain will also graduate with a pair of school records. In the spring of 2021, he matched the school standard by catching 14 passes in a 6-0 shutout at Lehigh. This season, he hauled in touchdown passes of 31, 24 and 34 yards against Georgetown to tie the school record.
Despite missing Bucknell's first two games to illness, and final two games to injury, Lyles led the team in touchdown catches (3), ranked second in receiving yards (214) and was slotted tied for third in receptions (17). He paced the Bison in receiving yards in both 2019 (579) and the spring of 2021 (291); he went over 100 receiving yards in a single game three times in his career, doing so against Princeton in 2019 (108), Lehigh in the spring of 2021 (103) and against Georgetown in 2021 (110).
An international relations major, Lyles served as an intern investigator for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and as an extern for the Anne Arundel County Public Law Library. He also volunteers at the Children's National Medical Center and for Green New Deal Lewisburg.
Lyles has been heavily involved in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion on Bucknell's campus and beyond. He is the co-founder of the Bison Athletes of Color Affinity Group, a member of the Minority Undergraduate Law Society and a Black Lives Matter Student-Athlete representative. In addition, as a SAAC representative for the football team, he is a member of the social responsibility branch, which advocates for more active involvement in diversity and inclusion on and around campus.
This season, 50 student-athletes were recognized on the FCS Academic All-Star Team, including six from the Patriot League ranks. Football players from all FCS institutions are eligible for this award. Each nominee was required to have a minimum grade point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale) in undergraduate or graduate study and have been a starter or key player with legitimate athletics credentials. They must have reached their second year of athletics and academic standing at the nominated institution and have completed a minimum of one full academic year at the nominated institution. They also must have participated in 50 percent of the games played at their designated position.
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