Charleston, S.C. - The Citadel Football senior linebacker Jordon Gilmore was one of 55 winners of the 12th Annual Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association Academic All-Star Team, announced Friday by the FCS ADA. There were 86 total nominees.

Gilmore, a Belmont, N.C. native, led the Bulldogs in tackles with 95 (49 solo, 46 assisted) and tied for sixth in the Southern Conference in total tackles for the 2009 season. He was named to the 2008 Fall SoCon All-Academic team, was a 2008 recipient of the Raytheon Scholarship, given by the Raytheon Corporation to an outstanding minority engineering student; a 2009 recipient of the Oren S. Herring Scholarship, given by The Citadel Engineering Department; and a 2009 recipient of the Society of American Military Engineers Scholarship, given to an engineering student in the Charleston area. The engineering major plans to graduate in May 2010 and attend graduate school to study biomedical engineering.

Football players from all Football Championship Subdivision institutions were eligible for the prestigious award. Each of the nominees was required to have a minimum grade point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale) in undergraduate study and have been a starter or key player with legitimate athletics credentials. He must have reached his second year of athletics and academic standing at the nominated institution and have completed a minimum of one full academic year at the nominated institution. He must also have participated in 50 percent of the games played at his designated position. Additionally, from the Academic All-Star team, six finalists were selected for the Ninth Annual FCS ADA's $5,000 postgraduate scholarship.

Gilmore and the other winners will be announced at the Football Championship Subdivision football championship on Friday, Dec. 18 in Chattanooga, Tenn.