Stanton named All-American
NEWPORT, R.I. - For the second-straight season, a Salve Regina football player has been named to the D3football.com All-America team as sophomore Hayden Stanton (Wallingford, Conn.) was named to the All-American Defense Third Team, Friday evening.
Stanton joins junior Phil Terio (Trumbull, Conn.) as the only two players from Salve Regina to earn All-America honors from D3football.com in the program's history. Stanton put together one of the best seasons as a defensive tackle for the Seahawks in his sophomore season in the Blue and Green. Following the season, Stanton was named the New England Football Conference Defensive Player of the Year before earning a spot on the Beyond Sports Network All-America team.
Stanton is ranked 15th in the country for sacks finishing the season with 11.5 for 64 yards. The sophomore was fifth on the team with 57 tackles that included a league-leading 17.0 tackles for loss for 94 yards. He is currently ranked third all-time at Salve Regina in yards from sacks (97) and quarterback hurries (11) and tied for third in forced fumbles (4) in his career. Stanton is fourth in the Seahawks record books with 147 yards from tackles for loss and tied for fourth with 16.5 sacks in just his first two seasons in the Seahawk blue and green. As a sophmore defensive tackle, Stanton was a Nomineee for the Cliff Harris Small College Defensive Player of the Year and was the only underclassmen named to the New England Football Writers Association All-New England DII/III Team.