High School Football Academic All-Americans- Players From Sparkman And Bob Jones Selected

High School Football America has identified and recognized one hundred and eighteen students from Alabama for the fourth Academic All-America Team. It also worthy to note that all the honorees had a grade point average of not less than 3. 7 or higher whilst also being a member of the varsity team in 2023. 
 
Three players from each of the Bob Jones and Sparkman High squads were included in the squad of Alabama for the elite team. 
 
Coming from Bob Jones, Jackson Dean (6-1 170 2024 WR), Kaleb Christopher (5-6 160 2026 RB) and Colt Dixon (5-10 170 2025 WR) received the honr as Bob Jones was a 5-6 team in the season being defeated in the first round of Class 7A playoffs. The season performances of the Pats in the 11 games included; total points scored being 300 while the total points conceded were 352. 
 
‘I mainly played in the ?eld and I think the decisions I was making out there were very good and made the correct adjustments,’ said James Cangelosi who is among the three Sparkman players with the Academic All-America list. “I am someone who put a lot of effort while the game is ongoing and someone who pays more attention in class. ” 
 
The rising junior (6-2, 194, 2025, LB) mainly played as a defensive lineman in 2023 with seven varsity starts across the 10 games that Senators’ played in the prior season. He has a 3. This little star player scholastically has a 7 point grade average and working part time at Four Leaves Asian Restaurant and Alumni Hall at Bridge Street Town Centre over the several months now in order to save money for a good college education. He will more than likely be switched to the middle linebacker position come the next NFL season. 
 
On the academic list also is another Senator, Zayden Bodner, who featured in all the 10 games for the 5-5 Senators starting five in the wide receiver position in 2026 for the Senators. In total for the offense that scored 321 points in the season, he caught the ball 10 times and gained 113 total yards while scoring one touchdown. 
 
This is the testimony of Bodner, a student athlete who understands that in his or her life they are called to perform as both an athlete and student while embracing academics: “I feel I am a student-athlete who knows the balance that is required to be a student and an athlete as I hold my academics. ” This is going to be his third year to play for the Broncos. That he was raised in Compton, born on June 8, 1993, and received a 0 grade point average as one of nine children to Joe Bodner and Valerie WIlliams. “I keep my body in as good of shape as my mind”, said a very hopeful Bodner who also functions as the team’s kick holder; “We have something to prove, we lost our last five after a 5-0 start we have something to prove as a team in the 2024 season. 
 
The youngest in a family of five children of Jacob and Dawn Cangelosi, the young Cangelosi has just received an admission offer for Faulkner University. 
 
The third Sparkman player for the specially selected list was Jayden ‘Drip’ Thomas (6-0, 170, 2024, RB/WR) from the class of 2024. 
 
The HSFA Academic All-America team of the year 2023 comprises of more than four thousand athletes. For the first four years of the organization, it has awarded over 14 thousand students immersed in athletic associations all over America. 
 
Well done, Matt Smith; “I feel I have placed myself into the leadership role on our team and I’m ready for the upcoming 2024 season here at Sparkman,” Cangelosi chimed in.