{"id":15810,"date":"2026-01-05T03:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=15810"},"modified":"2026-01-05T03:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:27:27","slug":"wisconsin-quarterback-awarded-division-3s-most-outstanding-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=15810","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin quarterback awarded Division 3&#8217;s most outstanding player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>WLUK &#8211; The University of Wisconsin-River Falls football team is preparing for its biggest game of the year tomorrow. They&#8217;re traveling to Canton, Ohio to take on North Central College for the Division 3 National Championship where all eyes will be on the Falcons&#8217; record-setting senior quarterback, Kaleb Blaha.<\/p>\n<p>Those same eyes watched Friday night as Blaha, a Coon Rapids, Minnesota native, won the Gagliardi Trophy. <\/p>\n<p>The Gagliardi Trophy is given to the most outstanding NCAA Division 3 football player. Nearly 70 percent of voters chose Blaha to receive the award.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first year a Wisconsin quarterback has received the award since UW-Oshkosh&#8217;s Brett Kasper in 2017. It&#8217;s also the first time a player from UW-River Falls has received the award.<\/p>\n<p>Blaha leads the country with 4,680 passing yards and ranks among the national leaders with 27.7 completions per game and 40 passing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time UW-River Falls has made the national championship. They play North Central College (Illinois), the defending champions. The game is set for 7 p.m. tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fox11online.com\/sports\/college\/wisconsin-quarterback-awarded-division-3s-most-outstanding-player\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WLUK &#8211; The University of Wisconsin-River Falls football team is preparing for its biggest game of the year tomorrow. They&#8217;re traveling to Canton, Ohio to take on North Central College for the Division 3 National Championship where all eyes will be on the Falcons&#8217; record-setting senior quarterback, Kaleb Blaha. Those same eyes watched Friday night &#8230; <a title=\"Wisconsin quarterback awarded Division 3&#8217;s most outstanding player\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=15810\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wisconsin quarterback awarded Division 3&#8217;s most outstanding player\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Wisconsin-quarterback-awarded-Division-3s-most-outstanding-player.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15812,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15810\/revisions\/15812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}