PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Three American Athlletic Conference football players have been chosen as Academic All-America selections by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Navy slot back Travis Brannan and center Eric Cal were named to the first team, while USF punter Trent Schneider was a second-team selections.
 
Brannan, who sees time at slot back and on special teams, has a 4.0 grade-point average while majoring in ocean engineering.  His service assignment is Navy pilot.
 
Cal, who also sees time on special teams and is Navy’s backup center, has a 3.93 grade-point average while majoring in chemistry.  His service assignment is medical corps.
 
Brannan and Cal are the 10th and 11th Navy football players to be named CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-Americans and the first since Thomas Wilson in 2015. It is the first time in school history that Navy football has had two first-team selections in the same year.

Schneider, who posted a program record-breaking season in 2019, earned second-team honors with a 4.00 grade-point average in communications, becoming just the second USF football player to be recognized as an Academic All-American and the first since center Chize Hine earned second-team honors in 2011.
 
Schneider set program records with a 46.0 average and 3,266 total punting yards on the 2019 season. He eclipsed the previous season marks of a 44.4 average set by Mattias Ciabatti in 2014 and his own yardage mark of 3,176 posted in 2018.