Cokes, Heffernan and Arello Headline All-Ivy Football Selections

HANOVER, N.H. — The Ivy League announced its all-conference football teams as selected by the league's coaches this afternoon, and Dartmouth had five players selected, led by safety Quinten Arello, defensive lineman Shane Cokes and linebacker Joe Heffernan on the second team.

Earning honorable mention were tight end Jace Henry and offensive lineman Nicholas Schwitzgebel, while linebacker Macklin Ayers also received recognition on the Academic All-Ivy League Team.

A 6-1, 210-pound senior from Kansas City, Missouri, Arello was one of the Big Green's three captains this season and anchored the defensive secondary. He started all 10 games, ranking fourth on the squad with 53 tackles, two for a loss, while also picking off a pass, breaking up three more and forcing a fumble. Twice he collected a career-high 10 stops — against Sacred Heart and the eventual Ivy champion Yale — and he intercepted a pass against Harvard for the second straight year.

Cokes, a 6-3, 275-pound junior from Dayton, Ohio, was another team captain and the most feared Big Green player on the defensive front, regularly facing double teams. He still managed to collect 54 tackles (third on the team and most among Ivy defensive linemen) while ranking in the top 10 in the league in both tackles for a loss (8.5, ninth) and sacks (4.5, seventh). Twice he made a career-high eight tackles in a game, and his 2.5 tackles for a loss with an 11-yard sack against FCS Playoff-bound New Hampshire matched a personal best.

A native of Brookfield, Wisconsin, Heffernan led the Ivy League with 98 tackles. The 6-2, 230-pound fifth-year senior also posted 7.0 tackles for a loss with 1.5 sacks, forced a fumble, recovered another and broke up a pass. Five times he recorded at least 10 tackles in a game with a career-high 15 on the road at Princeton, and he had at least six stops in all 10 contests.

Henry, a 6-5, 245-pound junior from Fairbanks, Alaska, caught 10 passes for 174 yards and a touchdown, plus ran for two more on direct snaps for good measure. Schwitzgebel, a 6-1, 290-pound junior from Cleveland, Ohio, started all 10 games on an offensive line that ranked among the top 25 in the FCS in fewest sacks allowed.

A native of Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, Ayers is a sociology major with a 3.83 GPA and also received College Sports Communicators Academic All-District I honors earlier in the day. The junior led the Ivy League in tackles per game at an even 10.0, which ranks 13th in the FCS, and recorded at least 10 tackles in five of the eight games he played, including a career- and team-high 16 at Yale.

The Ivy League also announced the winners of the Rookie of the Year and Coach and of the Year awards, both of which went to individuals from Yale — freshman running back Joshua Pittsenberger and head coach Tony Reno, respectively. The 2022 Asa S. Bushnell Cup Presentation, honoring the Ivy League Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, will take place on Monday, Dec. 12, at the famed New York Athletic Club. The Bushnell Cup finalists will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 29.

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