KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association has announced new football athletes of the week from the sixth week of the 2025 season, presented by FieldTurf. Three student-athletes collected weekly honors in week six with Central Missouri’s Donovyn Omolo named the Offensive Athlete of the Week, Fort Hays State’s Michael Chavez named the Defensive Athlete of the Week and Emporia State’s Divante Herrig-Brittain named the Special Teams Athlete of the Week.
OFFENSIVE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Donovyn Omolo, QB, Central Missouri
Donovyn Omolo helped the Mules to a thrilling 35-34 victory at Central Oklahoma Saturday, Oct. 4, in Edmond, Oklahoma. Omolo passed for a career-high 331 yards, going 20-of-40, and tallied two passing touchdowns. He added a career-best two rushing touchdowns on 12 carries and 37 rushing yards. In addition, he caught a 17-yard touchdown pass from wide receiver Marlon Lindsey Jr. for his first-career receiving TD and fifth touchdown of the game. For the game, he tallied 368 yards of total offense.
DEFENSIVE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Michael Chavez, DB, Fort Hays State
Michael Chavez had a big defensive day with eight tackles, one interception, one strip sack that resulted in a turnover, and one fumble recovery, helping Fort Hays State to a 28-21 win at Missouri Southern. In the second quarter, Chavez forced a fumble on his sack, recovered by the Tigers at the MSSU 37. It led to a touchdown, pushing the FHSU lead to 17-7. Early in the third quarter, he recovered a fumble forced by John Johnson in MSSU territory that led to a field goal to push the Tiger lead to 20-14. In the fourth quarter with the Tigers up 28-14, Chavez intercepted an MSSU pass in FHSU territory, which allowed FHSU to chew more time off the clock before eventually winning by seven.
SPECIAL TEAMS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Divante Herrig-Brittain, WR, Emporia State
Divante Herrig-Brittian blocked a punt and recovered it in the endzone to give the Hornets a 14-0 lead four and a half minutes into the game on the way to a 50-14 win at Missouri Western. It was the fourth blocked punt of by Emporia State and the first time since 2010 that the Hornets have recovered a blocked punt for a touchdown.
OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES:
Caleb Heavner, QB, Fort Hays State
Caleb Heavner had 219 yards of total offense in the 28-21 win at Missouri Southern. He ran for a season-high 94 yards and threw for 125, while having a hand in three of the four touchdowns scored by FHSU. He rushed for two of the touchdowns, one from 12 yards out to put the Tigers up 7-0 early, then from just a yard out to push the Tiger lead to 28-14 in the fourth quarter. His 16-yard touchdown pass to Cale Cormaney extended the Tiger lead to 17-7 in the second quarter. Heavner averaged 6.3 yards per carry and his longest rush went for 18 yards. He gained 111 yards on the ground, but a pair of MSSU sacks brought his net rushing total back inside of 100.
Jordan Rogers, DB, Pittsburg State
Jordan Rogers played a key role in No. 17 Pittsburg State's dominant defensive performance in the Gorillas 23-6 home win over Nebraska-Kearney Saturday (Oct. 4) at Carnie Smith Stadium. The Bellmead, Texas native made six tackles and logged one of Pitt State's 4.0 quarterback sacks in the contest as the Gorillas limited the Lopers to a scant 157 total yards, including just 48 net rushing yards on 27 carries. The Pitt State defense, which did not allow an offensive touchdown in the contest, forced nine punts and an interception in the contest. UNK came into the contest averaging an MIAA leading 221.4 ground yards. Rogers leads the Gorillas and ranks in the top seven in the MIAA in both tackles (44, 7.3 pg) and interceptions (2).
Landon Boss, LB, Emporia State
Landon Boss had five tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss including two sacks in the Hornets 50-14 win at Missouri Western. He led a defense that limited the Griffons to an Emporia State D2 era school record of -6 yards. His two sacks came on fourth down plays on back to back possessions to open the third quarter. HE accounted for a total of 22 lost years on his 2.5 TFL. It is the first time ESU has held a team to negative yardage as a member of Division II.
Zane Hall, K, Fort Hays State
Hall saw his first game of action at Fort Hays State and produced a perfect 2-of-2 performance on field goals and 2-of-2 performance on PAT kicks in the 28-21 win at Missouri Southern. He made field goals from 32 yards and averaged 64.0 yards on six kickoffs, producing four touchbacks.
ALSO NOMINATED:
OFFENSE – Jett Huff [Central Oklahoma], Camden Crooks [Emporia State], Zahmari Palode-Gary [Pittsburg State]
DEFENSE – Xavier Morrow [Nebraska Kearney]
SPECIAL TEAMS – Ethan Brown [Central Missouri], Zane Schawang [Nebraska Kearney]
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WEEK ONE:
Offensive – Justin Lewis, QB, Washburn
Defensive – Zach Bergmann, LB, Missouri Southern
Special Teams – Aidan Battle, K, Washburn
WEEK TWO:
Offensive – Martin Tillman, QB, Missouri Southern
Defensive – John Johnson, LB, Fort Hays State
Special Teams – Taderian Partee, DL, Fort Hays State
WEEK THREE:
Offensive – Jack Pospisil, WR, Central Missouri
Defensive – Reginald King Jr., S, Pittsburg State
Special Teams – David Arriaga, K, Fort Hays State
WEEK FOUR:
Co-Offensive – Isaiah Harris, RB, Nebraska Kearney
Co-Offensive – Jordan Pachot, QB, Central Missouri
Defensive – Clayton Power, DL, Northwest Missouri
Special Teams – Joseph Kim, K, Central Oklahoma
WEEK FIVE:
Offensive – Cleo Chandler Jr., RB, Pittsburg State
Defensive – John Johnson, LB, Fort Hays State
Special Teams – Jaylen Fuksa, CB, Pittsburg State
WEEK SIX:
Offensive – Donovyn Omolo, QB, Central Missouri
Defensive – Michael Chavez, DB, Fort Hays State
Special Teams – Divante Herrig-Brittain, WR, Emporia State