Florida State's Bryan Stork is included on the Rimington Trophy 2013 Spring Watch List. The award is presented annually to college football's top offensive center.
Here is the official press release:
NEW YORK CITY - The Rimington Trophy committee has released its 2013 Spring Watch List. The list includes 17 returning players from the 2012 Watch List. In all, there are 44 players on the Watch List. The SEC leads the way with nine players while the PAC-12 and the Mountain West Conference check in with five players each. The following is a list of those named to the 2013 Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List.
* American Football Coaches Association * Walter Camp Foundation * Sporting News * Football Writers Association of America
The Center with the most first team votes will be determined the winner. If there is a tie with first team votes, then the Center with most second team votes will win. If there is still a tie, the winner will be determined by the Rimington Trophy committee. The winner will be honored at Rimington Trophy Presentation banquet at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln, Nebraska on January 11, 2014. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| About the Rimington Trophy The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the Most Outstanding Center in NCAA Division I-A College Football. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy has raised over $2 million for the cystic fibrosis community. The fourteen-year old award is overseen by the Boomer Esiason Foundation, which is committed to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis and has raised nearly $100 million for CF Research. Dave Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman. For more on the Rimington Trophy and a list of past recipients, visit www.rimingtontrophy.com About the NCFAA The Rimington Trophy is a member of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA). The NCFAA was founded in 1997 as a coalition of the major collegiate football awards to protect, preserve and enhance the integrity, influence and prestige of the game's predominant awards. The NCFAA encourages professionalism and the highest standards for the administration of its member awards and the selection of their candidates and recipients. For more information, visit the association's official website, ncfaa.org. |
In case you missed it last night, here's a GIF of Jameis Winston's head-turning throw form right field to third base in the FSU baseball team's win over Clemson. Full video of the throw can be seen below the GIF.
Enjoy.
Florida State senior cornerback Lamarcus Joyner has been named as one of 42 defensive players across college football to the 2013 Lott IMPACT Watch List. The award takes into consideration defensive performance as well as five traits as IMPACT stands for Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity. Joyner is one of seven ACC players to earn a spot on the list.
Joyner is coming off a strong junior season in which he became one of the top safeties in the country. He elected this off-season to make the move to cornerback under new defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt.
To view the complete press release on the league's seven watch-list players, click here to visit the ACC's website.
Courtesy of Seminole Productions: Take a look back at Florida State's 51-7 victory over the Boston College Eagles.
Filmed and Edited by Chris Ruth
GFX by Brad Blanar
Filmed and Edited by Chris Ruth
GFX by Brad Blanar
Former Florida State kicker and recent Buffalo Bills sixth-round draft selection Dustin Hopkins joined The John Murphy Show on Bills.com to discuss the start of his professional career.
Here's a full audio clip of Hopkins' appearance on the show:
Courtesy of Kidz1stFund:
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State head football coach Jimbo Fisher and his wife, Candi, teamed up with two legendary college football coaches on Sunday evening for a private fundraiser at Fleming's Steakhouse in Birmingham, Ala., benefitting Kidz1stFund to raise funds for Fanconi anemia research, the rare disease that affects their son, Ethan.
"Candi and I are very thankful to the Bowdens and Sabans for joining us in our fight against Fanconi anemia," Fisher said. "Their support means a lot to our family. Coach Bowden and Coach Saban have both been very influential not only in my coaching career but in my life. We thank them and all of the supporters in Birmingham who turned out for the event."
The Fishers were joined by former FSU coach Bobby Bowden, his wife, Ann, and current Alabama coach Nick Saban and his wife, Terry. Bowden, Fisher and Saban have been apart of multiple national championship winning teams, combining to possess seven championship rings.
Sunday night's event was attended by almost 225 generous Birmingham supporters who were moved by the Fishers' emotional story of their battle to help their son, inspired by Bowden's wise words of wisdom and energized by Saban's message of hope. Through the combined efforts of these celebrated coaches, the Fishers' Kidz1stFund received close to $100,000 in donations for research.
"With Candi being from the state of Alabama as well as my playing days at Samford, in particular, the city of Birmingham has become a second home to us. We thank them for embracing our family and supporting the fight against FA."
During the live auction portion of the event, the Sabans were so motivated that Terry surprised the audience by offering two seats in her football suite for any home Alabama game. The Birmingham crowd responded enthusiastically with several thousand dollars in bids.
"We are happy to support Jimbo and Candi at their fundraiser for Kidz1stFund," Terry Saban said.
"This is obviously something that has directly affected their family as well as many others and we are happy to do our part to help in the battle against and, hopefully, finding a cure for FA," Coach Saban added.
Led by Candi Fisher, Kidz1stFund raises awareness and research dollars for the life threatening and incurable genetic blood disorder called Fanconi anemia, or FA. FA was diagnosed in the Fishers' younger son, Ethan, in the spring of 2011 after Coach Fisher's first season as head coach at Florida State. The incidence rate, or the likelihood of a child being born with FA, is about 1 in 131,000 in the U.S. and the median age of survival is 29 years.
Fanconi anemia patients do not repair their DNA well which leads to bone marrow failure. Since the Fisher's elder son Trey is not a match, Ethan's transplanted bone marrow will come from an unrelated donor. Currently, an unrelated bone marrow transplant for an FA patient has an 80% survival rate. FA patients are also 300,000 times more likely to get cancer in their early years than those without FA.
Kidz1stFund's goal is to raise $500,000 by December of each year for the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital. To date, the fund has donated over $1 million dollars to the Fanconi Anemia Comprehensive Care Program, which treats more Fanconi anemia patients needing blood and marrow transplantation than all other hospitals in the country combined. With the research dollars from Kidz1stFund, researchers at the University of Minnesota are working to help FA patients survive and thrive after bone marrow transplants.
Time is not on Ethan Fisher and those with FA's side. With help from the Sabans and the Bowdens, Kidz1stFund is able to reach a new audience, educating others about FA as well as raising much needed research dollars to find a cure.
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Kidz1stFund: Jimbo & Candi Fisher's Kidz1stFund is dedicated to raising awareness and research dollars for Fanconi anemia, the rare disease that affects their younger son, Ethan. Dollars raised through generous donations, online contributions, merchandise, and during special events go toward finding better treatments and ultimately a cure for this life threatening disease.
To learn more about the fund and donate to the cause, please visit www.Kidz1stFund.com.
