IRVING, Texas - The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced Wednesday the members of the 2025 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, which comprises college football players from all divisions of the NCAA, NAIA and sprint football who each maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better throughout their college careers.
 
Sean Berardino (Millersville, Md./Archbishop Spalding), Zach Cernuto (Scottdale, Pa./Southmoreland), Ben Coates (Hudson, Ohio/Hudson), Grant Cullen (Pittsburgh, Pa./Pittsburgh Central Catholic), Dawson Dietz (Allison Park, Pa./Hampton), Justin Johns (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional), Avery Keith (Hartville, Ohio/Lake), Trevor Manley (Altoona, Pa./Altoona), Eddie Nicotra (Cranberry Twp., Pa./North Catholic), Owen Petrisek (Ellsworth, Pa./Bentworth), Jacob Pugh (Jefferson Hills, Pa./Thomas Jefferson), Anthony Rosati (Chardon, Ohio/Perry), Kevin Sullivan (Gotha, Fla./Olympia) and Zach Valentine (Allison Park, Pa./Shaler Area) represented W&J on the 2025 NFF Hampshire Honor Society.
 
W&J was one of 44 schools across all divisions with at least nine members in 2025. W&J joined Carnegie Mellon and Case Western Reserve University as the only Presidents' Athletic Conference members to have student-athletes acknowledged.
 
A record 2,532 players from 339 schools qualified for membership in 2025, marking the largest class in the program's 19-year history. The initiative has now honored 20,946 student-athletes since it's inception.
 
"In today's era of NIL and the transfer portal, we firmly believe that education remains the key to long-term success," said NFF President & CEO Steve Hatchell. "These results reaffirm that academics are still top of mind for today's student-athletes. We salute the schools, coaches, and administrators who continue to champion education as a core part of the student-athlete experience. We'll keep doing everything we can to promote those academic ideals and ensure education stays central to the holistic development of every student-athlete."
 
Nominated by their respective schools, members of the NFF Hampshire Honor Society must be either a senior player who will graduate this spring/summer and just completed his final year of playing eligibility in 2024, or a graduated player who has been out of high school at least three years. They must also have attained a minimum undergraduate cumulative GPA of 3.2 (4.0 scale) and been starters or contributors throughout the 2024 season.