(Pictured: College Football Hall of Famer Chuck Cecil (Arizona) will be the keynote speaker at the NFF Southern Arizona Chapter's 19th Annual Scholar-Athlete Awards Banquet on Sunday, April 17.)
TUCSON, Ariz. (March 22, 2016) - The Southern Arizona Chapter of the National Football Foundation (NFF) and College Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the 2016 Scholar-Athlete Award Recipients. This year’s Honorees are:
James Raica Pusch Ridge
William Walker Cienega
Andrew Filiberti Sahuaro
Jake Ksiazek Salpointe
Tristan Peterson CDO
DeAndre Williams Tucson
Dionte Flores Flowing Wells
Dylan Eickmeyer Salpointe
David Ogas Morenci
Cody Cropp Pusch Ridge
These Scholar-Athlete Honorees will be formally recognized at the 19th Annual Scholar-Athlete Awards Banquet to be held on Sunday, April 17, starting with a reception at 4:30 PM at The Doubletree Hotel at Reid Park. Former Wildcat All-American, NFL star and College Football Hall of Famer Chuck Cecil will be the keynote speaker.
The mission of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the NFF is to promote and develop leadership, character and academic excellence through amateur football. The Chapter fulfills this mission, in part, by annually selecting 10 graduating senior high school football players as recipients of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Award. The Chapter, each year, also selects one University of Arizona graduating senior to be honored. This year’s Honoree is Casey Skowron.
These 11 outstanding young men are selected on the basis of stringent criteria focusing on academic scholarship, citizenship and athletic achievement. One of the 10 senior high school honorees will be nominated for the NFF National High School Scholar-Athlete Award to be presented in December 2016 in conjunction with the 59th NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
For more information and ticket prices for the dinner, please contact Rick Gonzales at rick72@aol.com
