Grace Named CSC Academic All-America

(MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.) – Carnegie Mellon University senior Bennett Grace was honored on the 2025 Academic All-America® Division III Football Team as selected by the College Sports Communicators (CSC). Grace was selected to the first team and becomes the 73rd Academic All-American in program history, as the Tartans rank first in Division III and second among all of college football across Divisions I, II, III and NAIA.

Grace carries a 4.0 GPA as a mechanical engineering major and is pursuing a minor in business administration. He was named the Centennial Conference Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year which is presented to a member of the junior or senior class with the highest cumulative GPA on the All-Centennial team. Grace finished the 2025 season as a second team All-Centennial honoree. The senior finished second on the Tartans with 10.5 tackles for a loss which ranked fourth in the Centennial Conference in the regular season. He also finished with 2.0 sacks and 48 tackles.

Off the field, Grace has worked on numerous projects, including the Foldable Chair Project, Coat Rack Project and Mobot Project. The four-year linebacker has been a sensor engineering intern for STR where he served as the primary point of contact for an external subcontractor developing a 3D model of a sensor deployment device. Grace also was an engineering intern for Ripa Engineering Corp. He is a member of Alpha Sigma Phi and Tau Beta Pi and has achieved engineering dean's list every semester.