CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – Nine Panthers earned 10 Missouri Valley Football Conference honors on the heels of Jared Brinkman's Defensive Player of the Year announcement.
Trevor Penning, Brinkman, Spencer Cuvelier, Benny Sapp and Matthew Cook earned a spot on the MVFC all-conference first team. Isaiah Weston was named to the second team, also earning all-purpose honors. Omar Brown, Deion McShane and Bradrick Shaw earned honorable mentions.
#70 OL Trevor Penning, UNI, 6-7, 321 pounds, Sr., Clear Lake (Iowa) Newman Catholic High
Penning is the first invite to the Reese's Senior Bowl and the only offensive lineman named as a finalist for the Walter Payton Award for the nation's top offensive player of the year.