FOREST, Va. – The accolades continue to roll in for Travis Burton (Pikeville, N.C.) of the Guilford College football team, as following his historic sophomore season, he was named a D3football.com First Team All-Region 3 selection by D3football.com, as announced by the organization on Wednesday afternoon.

The second-year edge rusher dominated from start to finish this fall, ranking as arguably Division-III football's most-disruptive defender. At the conclusion of three rounds of NCAA Championship play, Burton maintains a hold of fourth in the nation in sacks per game, with 1.33, and tied for sixth in total sacks with 12.0 for the Quakers. In the process, Burton vaulted himself from a top-five rank in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) for sacks as a freshman, to pacing the conference this season, clearing the field by 4.5 takedowns of opposing quarterbacks. Most impressively, however, is the way in which Burton was able to round-out his game and impact in his second season. Living in opposing backfields, the Pikeville native paces all of NCAA football in tackles for a loss per game, with a mark of 2.94, 0.39 more than anyone else in Division-III. His TFLs total of 26.5 across just nine games was finally surpassed in postseason play atop that category in Division-III, standing second in the nation despite just nine games played, and with a total that is believed to be the most in ODAC history. Overall, Burton accrued 81 total tackles this season, fifth-most in the conference, with 35 of them standing as solo tackles, good for a rate of 9.0 solo tackles per game to rank 59^th in Division-III.  

It has been a few years since the formerly vaunted Quakers football program placed a player on the D3football.com All-Region team, with the last selections coming in 2018 when De'Eric Bell '19 was a First Team All-Region pick at running back and Bryce Smith '20 was a Third Team All-Region selection at linebacker. Burton becomes the first GC defender to be a First Team All-Region honoree from D3football.com since Vic Smith Jr. '18 in 2017.

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