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Olson helped the <strong>Warhawks</strong> win NCAA III championships in 2007, 2009 and 2010, and <strong>Wisconsin</strong><br />
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles all four of the years he was with the team. He was a<br />
D3football.com Honorable Mention All-America pick in 2010, when he was also D3football.com West<br />
Region Second Team and First Team All-WIAC. Olson was a second team all-conference pick in 2009.<br />
Olson is the only player from a <strong>Wisconsin</strong> college selected for the team.<br />
The IFAF <strong>to</strong>urnament, which is held every four years and began in 1999, brings eight teams <strong>to</strong>gether.<br />
The U.S. participated for the first time in 2007, winning the title, with Japan winning in 1999 and 2003.<br />
The 2011 <strong>to</strong>urney will be played in the cities of Graz, Innsbruck and Vienna. The U.S. team will play<br />
Australia July 8, Germany July 10, and Mexico July <strong>12</strong>. The other pool includes Austria, Canada, France<br />
and Japan. Depending on results of pool play, the bronze medal game will be played July 15 and the<br />
gold medal game July 16. The Canadian team includes thirteen players currently playing in the CFL, and<br />
twenty-one players on other teams in the field have either made a NFL practice squad or a NFL Europe<br />
roster.<br />
In 15 games during the 2010 season Olson recorded 110 tackles, tenth in the UW-W record book, 62 of<br />
them solo, which is the fourth highest <strong>to</strong>tal in the records. He had ten tackles for a loss, 5.5 quarterback<br />
sacks, four forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. He is also sixth in the school records in career<br />
tackles (285).<br />
Rusch Earns Membership in Hampshire Honor Society<br />
6/30/2011<br />
<strong>Whitewater</strong>’s Aaron Rusch (Hartford/Hartford) has earned membership in the National Football<br />
Foundation’s Hampshire Honor Society. To earn the honor a student athlete must be a starter or<br />
significant reserve on his team, have a minimum of a 3.2 (4.0 scale) cumulative grade point average, and<br />
must be in the final year of eligibility and meet NCAA graduation progression requirements. The NFF<br />
Hampshire Honor Society honors football players from every Division (I, II and III).<br />
Rusch, a four-year regular for the <strong>Warhawks</strong>, was a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy and a semifinalist for<br />
the William V. Campbell Trophy in 2010. He was also named UW-<strong>Whitewater</strong> Male Senior Athlete of the<br />
Year, and was a College Sports Information Direc<strong>to</strong>rs Second Team Academic All-American. He helped<br />
the team <strong>to</strong> four straight <strong>Wisconsin</strong> Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles and national championships<br />
in 2007, 2009 and 2010. As a wide receiver and punt returner Rusch made numerous record book<br />
entries, including <strong>to</strong>p ten marks in ten categories in the UW-<strong>Whitewater</strong> record book and four times in the<br />
<strong>to</strong>p five in the WIAC record book.<br />
Rusch, a three-time all-WIAC pick, garnered as many academic accomplishments as athletic. He was<br />
named the WIAC Max Sparger Scholar Athlete for football in 2010. A physical education major, Rusch<br />
posted a 3.82 cumulative grade point average, was a member of the Golden Key National Honor<br />
Society, a Sigma Alpha Lambda National Leadership and Honors Organization nominee, and a Dean’s<br />
List honoree every semester. He has also earned a spot on the UW-W Scholar Athlete Award list and<br />
was named a Chancellor’s Scholar Athlete in April 2011.<br />
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