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SMSU FOOTBALL: SMSU’s Dicke the NSIC Glen Galligan award winner

BURNSVILLE -Southwest Minnesota State University senior football student-athlete Jon Dicke was selected as the 2018 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Glen Galligan Award recipient as chosen by the league’s head coaches on Friday.

The award is given to a student-athlete who participates at his institution for four years and is academically superior while making a positive contribution to the institution. The Galligan Award was initiated in 1948 to honor an outstanding senior football player in the NSIC. Glen Galligan served as the athletics director at Winona State University from 1929-47 and head football coach from 1927-33 and 1935.

Dicke, a defensive lineman from Rochester, has earned numerous awards for his classwork and play on the field this fall. In September, he was recognized as a member of the 2018 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team and was also chosen as a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame William V. Campbell Trophy, which recognizes the top football scholar athlete in the nation. On Thursday (Nov. 15), he was named CoSIDA Academic All-District for the second straight season.

Dicke has been involved with numerous community service projects in his hometown and in Marshall since his arrival on the SMSU campus in the fall of 2015. For his selection to the Good Works Team®, Dicke will be honored at halftime of the 2019 Allstate® Sugar Bowl® in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2019. he is one of just three Division II student-athletes honored on this year’s team. Dicke, who carries a 4.0 cumulative GPA in exercise science, was named a first team CoSIDA Academic All-America® in 2017, becoming just the 20th SMSU student-athlete named CoSIDA Academic All-American and just the seventh to garner first team honors.

Some of the projects Dicke has been involved in Marshall include Mustang Mail, which is a community engagement program with elementary schools, bagging and packaging meals for the United Way in Marshall, Relay for Life and SMSU Athletics Highway Clean-Up. He has been an active member of the SMSU Exercise Science Club-serving as president-and has also worked with the SMSU Physical Therapy Clinic, helping stretch, evaluate, and implement treatment programs for students attending the clinic with musculoskeletal issues. He has also held numerous leadership roles during his three years on the SMSU student senate.

In his hometown of Rochester, Dicke has also been active with the Rochester Children’s Museum, Rochester Humane Society, Salvation Army and Special Olympics.

On the football field, Dicke finished this season with 42 tackles with 5.5 for loss and two sacks. Dicke, who started every game the past two seasons, closed his four-year career with 111 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks.

Dicke is the eighth Mustang to be named the recipient of the Glen Galligan Award in its 71-year history. He joins Dan Koster (1984), Bruce Saugstad (1988), Preston Cunningham (1995), Eric Lee (1996), Jason Jacobs (1999), Tyler Fischer (2007) and Tyler Reed (2008) as SMSU’s recipients of the Glen Galligan Award.

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