Eastern Washington University football senior linebacker Jack Sendelbach has been selected to the Academic All-District 8 Football Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
 
Sendelbach is a 2015 graduate of Blanchet High School in Seattle, Wash., and is in his seventh year with the Eagles. A co-captain for the third-straight time, he is the 70^th Eagle to be honored and the first since Dehonta Hayes and Spencer Blackburn in 2019.
 
Sendelbach graduated following spring quarter of 2019 with a marketing degree and is now in a graduate program for sport and recreation administration where he boasts a 3.94 GPA.
 
In 2020-21, Sendelbach became the 20^th different Eastern player in school history (total of 24 honors) to be recognized as one of 54 members nationally on the FCS Athletic Director's Association Academic All-Star Team. He is a Hampshire Honor Society selection and has been named to the Big Sky Conference All-Academic team four times.
 
He now advances to the national ballot to select Academic All-America honors. Most recently, Cooper Kupp earned Academic All-America honors back-to-back in 2015 and 2016 for the Eagles, who have had eight different players win 12 Academic All-America honors since 1989. A total of 70 EWU football players have now been honored since then on the All-District squad, which includes NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football players from schools in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii and British Columbia.
 
Sendelbach has 267 tackles in his 47-game career (26 as a starter), which is the 14^th most in EWU history. He has had 14 performances with double-digit tackles, including four this season with a season-high 13 at Southern Utah. He also has six career sacks, 26 total tackles for loss, four fumble recoveries and four forced fumbles.
 
He has 75 total tackles in eight games this season, 39 of which are solo. Sendelbach is averaging 9.4 tackles per game which ranks 25^th in the FCS and sixth in the Big Sky Conference.
 
Sendelbach and the No. 5/6 Eagles (8-2, 5-2 Big Sky) are preparing to close the regular season at Portland State tomorrow (Nov. 20) in Hillsboro, Ore. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. on ESPN+ and 700-AM ESPN.