Alumni Update - Brad Banas (Robert Morris)

Robert Morris senior linebacker Brad Banas earned his third consecutive Capital One Academic All-District First Team honor in football.

As a result of his first-team selection, Banas, a Chartiers-Houston High School graduate, will now advance to the Academic All-America ballot.

Banas has a 3.95 cumulative grade point average as an engineering major and is also minoring in alternative energy and sustainability.

Banas has started each of the Colonials’ first nine games this season and has provided a career-high 55 tackles, including 24 solos. He has made a career-best eight tackles for loss and added three sacks. on.

Banas also provided the team with one of its two defensive touchdowns when he intercepted a pass at Bryant and returned it 55 yards to the end zone to tally his first-career score and become the 15th Colonial ever to notch a "pick-six." Banas registered 10 tackles, including a career-high three for loss, in a surprise win over previously undefeated Lafayette Sept. 29 and also hit double digits in tackles against the Northeast Conference's top two teams, Albany and Wagner.

Banas has played in 37 career games, including 29 starts, over the past three years. He has made 143 career stops and has added 17.5 tackles for loss and five sacks.

Banas has seven career passes defended, including two interceptions, two fumble recoveries and one forced fumble.

(photo courtesy of Robert Morris University)