Noah Dobert

MARQUETTE — Noah Dobert isn’t just raking in lots of honors, he’s raking in awards the football team at Northern Michigan University has never won before.

The 5-foot-11, 197-pound redshirt freshman running back from Dearborn became the first Wildcat to earn All-American recognition from the Division II Conference Commissioners Association, NMU Sports Information announced.

Dobert, who set all kinds of game and season rushing records both all-time at Northern and for this season in NCAA Division II, was named a Second Team All-American by the D2CCA.

He finished with school records of 1,656 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns, breaking the school’s yardage record by more than 150 yards. He was also third in all of Division II this season with 150.5 yards per game and among national leaders with 6.3 yards per carry.

While he was already having quite a nifty year leading up to the season’s final game, all these records came about due to his finale against Wayne State, when he demolished the Wildcats’ single-game rushing record by nearly 100 yards with his 406-yard effort that included four TDs, all of at least 50 yards.

The 406 yards was just a dozen yards short of the all-time Division II record for any year at any school in its record books.

By the end of the season, he was named GLIAC Offensive Back of the Year while also making the league’s First Team and being selected to the D2CCA All-Super Region 3 First Team.

NMU finished the season with a 3-8 record overall and 3-5 in the GLIAC.