Bearkat Trio Tabbed For Pre-Season All-America Team
Courtesy: Paul Ridings, Jr., SHSU Sports Information
Running back Timothy Flanders, wide receiver/wildkat Richard Sincere and cornerback Bookie Sneed all have been selected to the 2013 Sports Network FCS Preseason All-America Team.
The All-America honor squad includes 98 players from 59 universities and all 13 NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision conferences.
Flanders was named to the Sports Network first team.
The senior from Midwest City, Oklahoma, stands as Sam Houston’s all-time leader in rushing (4,234 career yards) and scoring (55 touchdowns).
Sincere is a second team selection.
The versatile senior from Galveston Ball ranks No. 10 in Sam Houston career all-purpose yards (2,796).
Sneed was tabbed as a third team member.
The Conroe senior has started 39 games, totaled 147 tackles and ranks No. 8 in SHSU career interceptions.
The trio of preseason All-Americans has led Sam Houston to two Southland Conference championships, back-to-back NCAA Division I National Championship game appearances and a 25-5 record the past two seasons.
A two-time finalist for the Walter Payton Award, Flanders begins his senior season 461 yards away from becoming the all-time leading rusher in Southland Conference history.
He holds 31 Sam Houston school records and is one of only three student-athletes to be named as Southland Conference “Player of the Year” in consecutive seasons.
Sincere is a two-time All-Southland selection and was named the league’s “Offensive Player of the Year” in 2011.
He has rushed for 1,868 yards and 19 touchdowns and caught 51 passes for 907 yards and five TDs as a Bearkat.
Sneed, also a two-time All-Southland selection, snapped a 44-year old school record with a 92-yard interception return for a touchdown in the “Battle of the Piney Woods” victory over SFA last year.
He has eight interceptions to his credit including four during the 2012 championship season.
An “Honorable” Way To Finish A Collegiate Career
Courtesy: Paul Ridings, Jr., SHSU Sports Information
Sam Houston’s Matt Johnson finished 15th in the men’s decathlon finals at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
Johnson scored 7,697 points.
His 15th place finish earns the Bearkat senior honorable mention All-America honors.
Starting Thursday’s action with a sixth place 14.56 clocking in the 110 meter hurdles and a decathlon personal best of 156 feet 10 inches in the discus, Johnson climbed into seventh place overall after seven events.
He ended the day with a 16th place finish in the pole vault (14 feet, nine inches), 11th in the javelin (176 feet, five inches) and a 4:52.83 time in the 1500 meters.
The top eight finishers in the event were named as first team All-America and places nine through 16 were second team selections.
Johnson finished just 51 points out of the top 12.
Johnson started Thursday in 14th place after scoring 3,962 points in the initial five events held Wednesday afternoon.
Johnson started Wednesday placing fifth in the 100 meters with a time of 10.70.
He was 15th in the long jump with a leap of 23 feet, 3.25 inches.
In the shot put, Johnson placed 10th with a throw of 44 feet, 5.5 inches.
He was 22nd in the high jump, clearing 6 feet 1.5 inches. Johnson completed Wednesday’s action with a 13th place 50.10 in the 400 meters.
Charles White is the second Sam Houston track and field athlete who has earned a trip to Eugene.
White will compete in the triple jump Saturday evening.
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