Wingate, N.C.----Wingate University redshirt senior
Perry Floyd (Gastonia, N.C.) is a first team pre-season All-American return specialist, as named by Consensus Draft Services (CDS) Saturday. CDS has named pre-season football All-American teams for seven years.
In February, Floyd was named to the 2009 NCAA Division II All-American second team by Don Hansen’s Football Gazette. Earlier, Floyd was named to the All-Super Region 2 first team by the same publication.
A first team All-South Atlantic Conference performer as a return specialist, Floyd averaged 30.4 yards per kick return and 15.1 yards per punt return in 2009. He led the league in both categories. The Forestview High School product was third on the NCAA Division II charts in kick returns and ninth in punt returns.
Floyd finished the year with 1,105 all-purpose yards. As a receiver, he had 32 receptions for 389 yards. Floyd contributed 289 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns (one kick return and two receiving) at Lenoir-Rhyne University on Oct. 10, 2009. Thanks to Floyd’s heroics, the Bulldogs posted a 50-49 come-from-behind victory over the LRU Bears.
In 2009, Wingate was 7-3 overall and 5-2 in the rugged South Atlantic Conference. The Bulldogs start the 2010 season by playing at the University of West Georgia on Saturday, August 28 (7 p.m. kick-off).
WINGATE UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a private four-year co-educational institution of 2,159 students offering active learning opportunities through personalized instruction, world travel, career discovery and community service.
Wingate offers 34 undergraduate majors in arts and sciences, business, communication, education, fine arts, music and sport sciences. It also offers graduate degrees in business, education, physician assistant studies and sport administration. In addition, the school awards the doctor of pharmacy and the doctor of education degrees.
Bulldog student-athletes compete in 19 NCAA Division II sports. Wingate University has won the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award for the past four years.
Wingate University is ranked number three among NCAA Division II Academic All-America® producing schools in the 2000’s with 34 honorees during this millennium. Only Pittsburg State (Kan.) University and Truman State (Mo.) University have produced more Academic All-America® honorees during this time period. Wingate’s 43 Academic All-America® honorees (lifetime) is tops among all SAC schools.
