NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Osorachukwu Ifesinachukwu has added another honor to his already impressive list of accolades. He has been named to the 2022 Academic All-America football first team selected by the College Sports Communicators.
 
Ifesinachukwu's other awards include being chosen as a finalist for the National Football Foundation's William V. Campbell Trophy, college football's premier scholar-athlete award, a finalist for the Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award, presented to an FCS student-athlete who excels not only on the playing field and in the classroom, but in the community and beyond and a college finalist for the 2023 Coach Wooden Citizen Cup.
 
A biomedical engineering major, Ifesinachukwu boasts a 3.67 GPA and is interested in pursuing a medical degree with a focus on oncology when his football playing days are over.
 
This season he was dominant on Yale's defensive line before suffering an injury. In five games, he had four sacks and five tackles for loss.
 
Off the field, Ifesinachukwu worked as a tutor with the Global Teaching Project, a non-profit that helps deliver AP STEM education to students in rural and underserved communities in Mississippi. In addition, he worked as a design aide for Yale's Center for Engineering and Innovative Design, where he helped members maintain safety regulations and provided assistance on projects. Looking toward his future career, Ifesinachukwu has served as a lab assistant at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas where he helped conduct research on Ewing's sarcoma cell lines.