The first active Georgia Tech football player ever to be enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Tech, long snapper Henry Freer was been named second-team academic All-America by College Sports Communicators, CSC announced Tuesday.
Freer is Tech football’s first academic All-American since Darryl Richard in 2007. Freer is also 15th the 15th academic All-American in Tech football history and his academic All-American recognition is the 102nd in Tech athletics history.
The Yellow Jackets’ newest academic All-American is in his second year in Tech’s doctoral program in chemical and biomolecular engineering after earning a bachelor’s degree in the same major in 2023. In addition to being a two-time academic all-district honoree, Freer is a two-time member of the all-ACC academic team, a five-time member of the ACC’s academic honor roll and Tech’s representative in the 2024 Go Bowling Military Bowl STEM scholar-athlete program.
On the field, Freer was Tech’s starting long snapper for each of the past three seasons. Freer played 331 snaps during his time at Tech.
To be eligible for academic All-American consideration, a football player must have at least a cumulative 3.5 GPA as both an undergraduate and graduate student (if applicable) while competing in at least 90% or starting 66% of his team’s games for the season.
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