FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (Aug. 2, 2021) – Entering their final seasons as Lumberjacks, DJ
Arnson and
Luis Aguilar both landed one last preseason All-American honor from Stats Perform.
Named to the 2021 Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-America Second Team,
Arnson repeated the honor he received in 2020 while Aguilar landed on the Third Team after earning First Team honors last fall. It's the fifth preseason All-American honor for Aguilar and the first ahead of the upcoming fall season.
Arnson landed on three preseason All-American teams in 2020, with Stats Perform the first of this fall.
Arnson and Aguilar are two of 23 total players from the Big Sky Conference named to the three Stats Perform All-America teams, with 10 programs garnering at least one honoree. Northern Arizona tied for third in the conference with its two honors and continued to prove its nationally recognized special teams unit is among the best in the FCS.
Playing in all five of Northern Arizona's games during the spring,
Arnson earned 2020 FCS Punter of the Year from the Augusta Sports Council. Averaging 44.0 yards per punt,
Arnson had just three of his 25 punts returned for a total of 21 yards. Booting seven punts for more than 50 yards and dropping 14 inside an opponent's 20-yard line,
Arnson did both when he kicked a career long 82-yard punt in the season finale against the Idaho Vandals. The kick pinned Idaho at its own 1-yard line and set a new Walkup
Skydome record.
Aguilar hit nine of his 10 field goals attempted during the spring while hitting all eight of his extra points. With 64 consecutive extra points made, Aguilar enters the fall just 13 more extra points made away from tying Micky
Penaflor's program record of 77 set between 1987 and 1989.
Hitting 83-of-84 extra points in his career, Aguilar currently holds Northern Arizona's program record and sits atop the FCS among players with at least 84 attempts. Additionally, Aguilar's 81.4 percent on field goals ranks him fifth among active FCS kickers and stands as the current program record.
Aguilar is also within reach of Robbie
Dehaze's program record of 302 career kicking points scored, set between 2005 and 2008. Finishing the spring at 188 points in his career as a Lumberjack, Aguilar trails
Dehaze's mark by 114. Previously, Aguilar scored a program-record 118 points during the 2019 season when he ranked second in the FCS among kickers and 10th among all players.
Northern Arizona opens the fall season on Thursday, Sept. 2 against the defending FCS champion Sam Houston Bearkats.
Tickets can be purchased online at
www.nauathletics.com/buy and questions can be directed to the Lumberjack Ticket Office at
LumberjackTicketOffice@nau.edu or 928-523-0639.
Season tickets for the Lumberjacks' five home games in the Walkup
Skydome this fall are available for as low as $75 for general admission. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more on a per game basis, as well as a Pick-Two Flex Mini Plan for any two home games for as little as $36 per person.
