Northwest Missouri State M-Club Hall of Fame
Kyle Zimmerman (Football – 2013-2016)
Zimmerman capped his Bearcat football career by earning the MIAA's Ken B. Jones Award, Kansas City Sports Commission's Sportsman of the Year and the CoSIDA Div. II Academic All-America of the Year in 2016. Zimmerman, a native of Overland Park, Kan., was selected as the MIAA Offensive Player of the Year after guiding Northwest to a 15-0 record and the program's sixth NCAA Div. II national title in 2016. Zimmerman gained second-team All-America status from AP, D2CCA and Don Hansen as he passed for 3,763 yards and 37 touchdowns. In the Oct. 29, 2016, Homecoming game vs. Pittsburg State, Zimmerman set the school single-game record with six passing touchdowns and rushed for another as he was named Don Black Award recipient. He tossed at least one touchdown pass in 14 of the 15 games in 2016 and his last throw was a 13-yard touchdown pass to Shane Williams in the fourth quarter of Northwest's 29-3 national title victory over North Alabama. Zimmerman is the program's career leader in completion percentage (69.7%) as he completed 320 of 459 throws.
