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Virginia chief linebacker Micah Kiser was called a finalist Wednesday for the William V. Campbell Trophy, which recognizes academy football’s top scholar-athlete .
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The accolade is presented by the National Football Foundation & Academy Hall of Fame, and Kiser was amid the 13 players in all capacity to accomplish the cut from an aboriginal account of 181 semifinalists.
Kiser, a Baltimore native, will accept an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as a affiliate of the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class. He, forth with the added 12 finalists, will appear the 60th NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 5 in New York, area his accomplishments will be highlighted.
During the event, the champ of the Campbell Bays will be named, and his postgraduate scholarship will access to $25,000.
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The event, which will booty abode at the New York Hilton Midtown, will be live-streamed on ESPN3 starting at 8:30 p.m.
The almsman of the Campbell Bays will additionally be accustomed at the NFF Board of Directors affair and at a accession hosted by its official home, the New York Athletic Club, on Dec. 6.
He will be accustomed during “The Home Depot Academy Football Awards” on ESPN at the Academy Football Hall of Fame on Dec. 7 in Atlanta. Finally, as allotment of the NFF’s affiliation with the Academy Football Playoff, the Campbell Bays champ will acknowledgment to Atlanta to be accustomed on the acreage during the CFP National Championship on Jan. 8.
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The bays is called in account of the backward Bill Campbell, the above administrator of Intuit, a above amateur and arch drillmaster at Columbia University and the 2004 almsman of the NFF’s Gold Medal.
The accolade comes with a 25-pound brownish trophy. A absolute administration of $241,000 in scholarships will be awarded Dec. 5, blame the program’s best distributions to added than $11.3 million.
Kiser was a Football Writers Association of America second-team All-American in 2016 afterwards finishing No. 1 in the ACC and No. 4 in the nation with 11.2 tackles per game. He was additionally called a CoSIDA second-team Academic All-American honoree in 2016. The backstab first-team All-ACC honoree has led the alliance in tackles anniversary of the accomplished two seasons.
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Already in 2017, Kiser has been called a midseason second-team All-American by The Associated Press.
He is a semifinalist for the Butkus Accolade and a quarterfinalist for the Lott IMPACT Trophy.
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