Bikulege and Knight Named CoSIDA Academic All-America

(AUSTIN, Texas) – Senior running back Luke Bikulege (Greer, S.C./St. Joseph's Catholic) and junior defensive back Sean Knight (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) of the Carnegie Mellon University football team were honored with first team selections to the 2020-21 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Division III Football Team.

Bikulege, a D3football.com All-Region selection and First Team All-Presidents' Athletic Conference honoree, rushed for 417 yards on 87 carries for an average of 4.8 yards per carry, and averaged 104.2 yards per game, which ranked third in the PAC. The senior led the PAC with seven rushing touchdowns while recording two in each of the Tartans first three games. In the Tartans win over Geneva, Bikulege rushed the ball a career-best 30 times for 193 yards.

Bikulege is a finance major in the Tepper School of Business and graduated with a 3.71 GPA and recorded a 4.0 in his final five semesters at Carnegie Mellon. Bikulege volunteers with Special Olympics and participates in the fundraiser for Pittsburgh Children's Hospital. He is a member of the Carnegie Mellon Investment Banking Academy, Scottie Ventures and Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity. This past summer he held an internship as an Investment Banking Summer Analyst at Deutsche Bank in Chicago. Bikulege had two different internships during the summer of 2019, the first with South State Bank and the second with Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough, both in Greenville, South Carolina. He also has been a shadowing intern for Novolex in New York City.

Knight, a Second Team All-PAC honoree, finished the 2021 spring season with 11 tackles, eight solo. In the win at Waynesburg, the cornerback recorded two interceptions and added a tackle for loss. It marked the second time in Knight's career that he had multiple interceptions in a game. He will enter his senior campaign with nine career picks which is tied for eighth most in program history.

A civil engineering major, Knight maintains a 3.67 GPA. A member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, Knight volunteers as tutor for high school kids at the Environmental Charter School. During the summer of 2020, he was a project manager intern for Structure Tone in New York City and is a civil engineering inter this summer at Kimley-Horn.

The Tartans 60 all-time honorees ranks first in Division III and fifth among all of college football, Division I, II, III and NAIA.