Toledo, Ohio – Toledo senior wide receiver Cody Thompson (Huron, Ohio) has been named to the Google Cloud Academic All-America Second Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). He is Toledo's first Academic All-American since Dan Molls earned first-team honors in 2012.
 
Thompson, who earned Academic All-District honors in 2017, graduated last December with a 3.66 GPA in marketing. He is currently pursuing his master's degree in recreation & leisure and holds a 3.83 graduate GPA.
 
Thompson has 43 receptions for 592 yards and 10 touchdowns this season, earning first-team All-MAC honors for the second time in his career. He is Toledo's all-time leader in career TD receptions (30) and ranks second all-time in receiving yards (3,257). Thompson was a first-team All-MAC selection in 2016, catching 64 passes for a then school-record 1,269 yards and 11 touchdowns. He has been on the official watch list for the Biletnikoff Award, given annually to the top receiver in the country, in each of the past two seasons as well.
 
This season, Thompson also was a candidate for the Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year, the Wuerffel Trophy, the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award, and the NCAA Senior CLASS Award.
 
Thompson will play his final game as a Rocket when Toledo takes on FIU in the 2018 Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl on Dec. 21.
 

Toledo Academic All-Americans

1980 - Ted Wampfler (Second Team)
1983 – Mike Matz (First Team)
1988 – Ken Moyer (Second Team)
1995 – Craig Dues (First Team)
1996 – Craig Dues (Second Team)
2000 – Todd France (Second Team)
2001 – Todd France (First Team), Chris Tuminello (Second Team)
2002 – Chris Tuminello (Second Team)
2004 – Lance Moore (First Team)
2012 – Dan Molls (First Team)
2018 – Cody Thompson (Second Team)