NFF Release

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Saint John's University led all of college football with 26 student-athletes named to the 2025 National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame Hampshire Honor Society on Wednesday, April 16.

A record-total of 2,532 student-athletes from 339 schools (FBS, FCS, Division II, Division III and NAIA) qualified for membership in the society's 19th year.

To qualify, student-athletes must be either a starter or a significant substitute in their last year of eligibility, achieve a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average and meet all NCAA-mandated progress towards degree requirements.

SJU is one of 23 college football programs, one of just three from the Division III ranks (Johns Hopkins and Redlands are the others), that have had at least one honoree in all 19 years of the NFF Hampshire Honor Society. 

Those honored (listed alphabetically) in 2025 include: 

-Senior safety Noah Arneson (Independence, Minn./Orono), a global business leadership major;
-Senior wide receiver Graham Beltrand (Long Lake, Minn./Orono), an accounting major;
-Senior defensive lineman Jordan Borgeson (Rochester, Minn./Lourdes), a biochemistry major (pre-medicine emphasis);
-Senior running back Quinn Christoffersen (South St. Paul, Minn.), an exercise and health science major;
-Senior linebacker Ben Dahl (Otsego, Minn./Rogers), a global business leadership major;
-Senior defensive lineman Zach Frank (Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial), an accounting major;
-Senior defensive back Graham Gerlach (St. Paul, Minn./Roseville Area), a global business leadership major;
-Senior defensive lineman Tommy Gilmore (Otsego, Minn./Rogers), an exercise and health science major;
-Senior offensive lineman Spencer Gustin (St. Cloud, Minn./Tech), a global business leadership major;
-Senior offensive lineman Tommy Hessburg (Grosse Pointe Park, Mich./Grosse Pointe South), a biochemistry major (pre-medicine emphasis);
-Senior defensive lineman Isaac Hetland (Osakis, Minn.), an exercise and health science major;
-Senior defensive lineman Travis Johnson (Murrieta, Calif./Vista Murrieta), a political science major;
-Senior defensive lineman Riley Kangas (Faribault, Minn./Bethlehem Academy), an exercise and health science major;
-Senior wide receiver A.J. Loch (Kildeer, Ill./Stevenson), an accounting major;
-Senior defensive lineman Alex Lundebrek (Otsego, Minn./Rogers), an accounting and economics double-major;
-Senior kicker Conor Murphy (Sioux Falls, S.D./O'Gorman), an accounting major;
-Senior linebacker D.J. Myles (Dayton, Minn./Champlin Park), a global business leadership major;
-Senior offensive lineman Grant Peroutka (Rosemount, Minn.), a global business leadership major;
-Senior defensive back Nolan Rueter (Avon, Minn./Albany), an accounting major;
-Senior linebacker Hayden Sanders (Brooklyn Park, Minn./Champlin Park), an accounting major;
-Senior defensive back Ryan Sanvik (North Branch, Minn./Chisago Lakes), an exercise and health science major;
-Senior linebacker Jake Schwinghammer (Woodbury, Minn./Tartan), a biochemistry major (pre-medicine emphasis);
-Senior offensive lineman Tom Soler (Circle Pines, Minn./Hill-Murray), a global business leadership major;
-Senior defensive lineman Dawson Van Meter (Luck, Wis.), a global business leadership major;
-Senior wide receiver Brady VanErp (Battle Lake, Minn./Ottertail Central), a communication and global business leadership double-major;
-Senior linebacker Cooper Yaggie (Breckenridge, Minn.), a global business leadership major.

Of the 26 honorees, two intend to return in 2025 thanks to an extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA for a medical hardship: Frank and Gilmore.

Three 2024 inductees played for SJU this past fall thanks to an extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA due to the COVID-19 pandemic:

-Senior linebacker Jack Bjork (Mahtomedi, Minn.), an economics and mathematics double-major; 
-Senior defensive back Mateo Cisneros (Shoreview, Minn./Mounds View), a biology major (pre-medicine emphasis); 
-Senior quarterback Aaron Syverson (Minnetonka, Minn.), an accounting major.