Twenty-Nine ECAC Student-Athletes Among NFF’s Impressive List of 156 Semifinalists for 2016 Campbell Trophy
(National Football Foundation:
Release)
IRVING, Texas - Twenty-nine student-athletes from Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) member institutions were named to The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame's (NFF) list of 156 semifinalists for the 2016 William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by
Fidelity Investments®.
The group of 29 consisted of six student-athletes from ECAC institutions in FBS, 13 from FCS, one from Division II and nine from ECAC member instutuions in Division III.
FBS
University of Connecticut: Justin Wain
Pennsylvania State University: Tyler Yazujian
University of Pittsburgh: Dontez Ford
Rutgers University: Quanzell Lambert
Syracuse University: Cameron MacPherson
Temple University: Brendan McGowan
FCS
Brown University: Dakota Girard
Bucknell University: Cary Hess
University of Delaware: Jalen Randolph
Delaware State University: Ernest Mengoni
Elon University: John Gallagher
Harvard University: Max Rich
Marist College: Cameron Gibson
University of Pennsylvania: Nick Demes
Princeton University: Scott Carpenter
Robert Morris: Andy Smigiera
Saint Francis University: Lance Geesey
Towson University: Jake Ryder
Yale University: Sabastian Little
Division II
West Chester University: Kyle Keyser
Division III
Carnegie Mellon University: Brian Khoury
Castleton University: Soren Pelz-Walsh
Franklin & Marshall College: Jonathan Naji
Frostburg State University: Isaac Robinson
Johns Hopkins University: Jack Campbell
Maine Maritime Academy: Robert Bradley
Moravian College: Jalen Snyder-Scipio
St. John Fisher: Alec Mortillaro
Washington & Jefferson College: Brandon Martuccio
The NFF will announce 12-14 finalists on Nov. 1, and each of them will receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as a member of the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class, presented by Fidelity Investments. The finalists will travel to New York City for the 59
th NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 6, where their accomplishments will be highlighted in front of one of the most powerful audiences in all of sports. At the event, one member of the class will be declared in dramatic fashion the winner of the 27th William V. Campbell Trophy and have his postgraduate scholarship increased to $25,000.
Nominated by their schools, which are limited to one nominee each, candidates for the awards must be a senior or graduate student in their final year of eligibility, have a GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, have outstanding football ability as a first team player or significant contributor and have demonstrated strong leadership and citizenship. The class is selected each year by the NFF Awards Committee, which is comprised of a nationally recognized group of media, College Football Hall of Famers and athletics administrators.
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