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The University of Missouri-Rolla football team has had two of its players selected to Football Gazette's All-America team for the 2006 season.
Wide receiver Ashton Gronewold picked up his third All-America award as he was chosen to the third team, while quarterback Joe Winters was named honorable mention after his record-breaking season with the Miners.
Gronewold shared the league's "Offensive Player of the Year" award with Central State running back Derrick Moss after breaking 12 school records over the course of the fall. Among the records he established were his receiving marks of 78 catches for 1,120 yards and for all-purpose yards with 1,788.
He also broke the UMR career marks in receiving and scoring during the season and set new single-game records for receiving yards (229 vs. Morehead State) and all-purpose yards (294 vs. Saint Joseph's). In all, Gronewold scored 17 touchdowns for the season, 15 receiving, one on a kickoff return and another on a punt return.
Winters, meanwhile, broke the Miner single-season marks for passing yards with 3,724 and total offense with 3,731, a mark that leads NCAA Division II. In his first season at UMR, the graduate student headed up the Miner passing game that also ranks first in the nation at the end of regular season play and was named as the "Offensive Player of the Year" for the year by D2Football.com.
Gronewold and Winters, who were second team picks to the Football Gazette all-region team, were first-team all-conference selections by the Great Lakes Football Conference. Gronewold had already earned All-America honors this season from the Associated Press and D2Football.com as he has been named All-America for the second straight year.
The Miners finished the 2006 season with a record of 6-5.
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