Northwestern University Athletics
Three Wildcats Named to 2011 NFF Hampshire Honor Society
5/4/2011 12:00:00 AM | Football
May 4, 2011
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Three seniors from Northwestern's 2010 football team were named today to the National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society, which is comprised of college football players from all divisions of play who each maintained a 3.2 grade point average (GPA) or better.
Named to the Society from Northwestern are: place-kicker and punter Stefan Demos (Scottsdale, Ariz./Horizon), superback Aaron Nagel (Lemont, Ill./Lemont), and superback Josh Rooks (Zeeland, Mich./Holland Christian).
In addition to achieving a 3.2 cumulative GPA, an honoree must have been a starter or a significant substitute in one's last year of eligibility and must be meeting all NCAA-mandated progress toward degree requirements.
The NFF Hampshire Honor Society capitalizes on the NFF's current National Scholar-Athlete program, greatly expanding the number of scholar-athletes the NFF can recognize each year and further strengthening the organization's leadership role in encouraging academic performance by the student-athletes who play football at the more than 700 college and universities with football programs nationwide.
All three Northwestern players earned Academic All-Big Ten honors in 2010 while Demos was a National Football Foundation Draddy Trophy semifinalist last fall.
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