D3football.com Release

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's University senior wide receiver Ravi Alston (Lake Elsinore, Calif./Vista Murrieta) was named to the D3football.com Preseason All-America second team on Monday, Aug. 23. 

He was named a preseason All-American by Lindy's magazine and the College Football America Yearbook earlier this summer for the second straight season, and was a D3football.com preseason All-America second-team pick in 2020.

An Associated Press All-American in 2019, Alston finished that season with 88 receptions for 1,444 yards and 13 touchdowns, including 36 catches for 554 yards and five touchdowns in SJU's four postseason games. The 1,444 receiving yards were third-most in Division III and fell 40 yards shy of the program's single-season record of 1,484 (Blake Elliott '03 in 2002).

No. 6 SJU begins the 2021 season against No. 23 Aurora (Ill.), a rematch of the wild 51-47 shootout win in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Division III playoffs, at 1 p.m. Sept. 4 in Clemens Stadium. The game will be the Johnnies' first in 630 days and one of five at home out of the schedule's first six this fall.