Former Mount Union football player and assistant coach Matt Campbell will be part of the 2022 class of the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-America Hall of Fame.

Campbell currently serves as the head football coach at Iowa State University, a position he has held since 2016.

Campbell played defensive end at Mount Union from 1999-2002. He was a 2001 and 2002 Football Gazette first-team All-American, a member of the 2002 D3football.com All-America first team, a 2002 AP Little All-America first-team selection and a member of the 2002 American Football Coaches Association All-America first team.

During his college career, Campbell twice won the Ohio Athletic Conference Paul Hornemann Award as the conference's top defensive lineman (2001 and 2002) and was an alI-OAC first-team defensive lineman in 2001 and 2002. Campbell's Purple Raider teams won four conference titles, three NCAA Division Ill national championships and went 54-1 in his four-year career. A 2002 Academic All-America selection, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in history and was inducted into the Mount Union Hall of Fame in 2018.

Campbell led the Cyclones to their fifth consecutive winning season and fifth consecutive bowl game appearance in 2021.

He is joined in the 2022 hall of fame class by Jennifer Babik, a four-time All-Ivy League softball player, who led Princeton University to the Women's College World Series. Gail (Koziara) Boudreaux of Dartmouth College earned basketball All-America honors and is the only women's basketball player to be recognized as the Ivy League Player of the Year three times. U.S. Olympian Marty Liquori, who was a five-time NCAA individual champion while competing in track and field and cross country at Villanova.

Created in 1988, the Academic All-America Hall of Fame recognizes former Academic All-Americas who received a college degree at least 10 years ago, have achieved lifetime success in their professional careers, and are committed to philanthropic causes.

The four inductees into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame will be honored at a luncheon on June 28, 2022, in conjunction with the CoSIDA Convention at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. The 2022 Dick Enberg Award recipient, to be announced at a later date, will also be recognized at the luncheon. For more information on the Academic All-America Hall of Fame, click here.

Mount Union has had 55 student-athletes (75 selections) that have been selected as Academic All-Americans, as voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).