Coleman Named to Lindy's National College Football All-America Team

A 2001 candidate for the Harlon Hill Trophy as the nation's top NCAA Division II player, Coleman, a native of Miami, Fla., was among 13 individuals to comprise the publication's preseason All-America offense first team. He joins four others from a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) school to be honored on either the first or second team. Hillsdale College's Todd DeVree (defensive lineman) and Tim Mustapha (defensive back) were named to the first team while wide receiver Pierre Brown of Wayne State and defensive lineman Robert Green of Indianapolis garnered second-team accolades.

Coleman has also been selected a 2001 preseason All-American by Preview Sports College Football and Street & Smith's.

A season ago, Coleman was recognized as a first-team All-American by Daktronics, Inc., Associated Press, Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette, and D2Football.com. Coleman, who attained All-GLIAC First-Team honors on offense and second-team accolades on defense as a specialist, was also selected as the 2000 Don Hansen's National Weekly Football Gazette's Receiver-of-the-Year and was a Detroit Free Press 2000 finalist for Michigan's top sports figure.

The 5-11, 182-pound receiver was both Ferris State's Most Valuable Player and Most Valuable Offensive Skill Player last season after setting both FSU and GLIAC career records for most receptions and receiving yards in the 2000 campaign. He has currently totaled 3,637 career receiving yards on 229 catches in 31 contests at Ferris State while compiling 212 career receptions for 3,460 yards in conference games only. Coleman established school single-season records for receptions (97), receiving yards (1,519) and touchdowns (15) last fall. His 89 catches for 1,441 yards in GLIAC outings only last season both represented conference records. He compiled nine 100-yard plus game receiving performances during the 2000 campaign and three double-figure reception outings, including a conference and school-record tying 15 catches at Grand Valley State (10/7).

For his three-year career to date, Coleman is presently third among the GLIAC's all-time leaders in all-purpose yards (4,912 yds.) and is ninth in scoring (202 pts.). The wideout currently ranks fifth in all-time scoring at FSU with a 214-career point total.

Coleman was also listed nationally in several individual statistical categories last season, finishing second in both pass receptions (8.8 rpg.) and receiving yards (138.1 ypg.), sixth in all-purpose yards (194.8 ypg.), tied for 19th in scoring offense (8.9 ppg.), and 46th in punt returns (10.3 avg.).