Sanchez named to Wuerffel Trophy Watch List
TAMPA, JULY 18, 2017 – Senior linebacker
Auggie Sanchez (St. Petersburg) has been named to the Wuerffel Trophy Watch List, marking the Bay Area native's second national award watch list and bringing USF's total to eight Bulls on 10 national award watch lists.
Sanchez, a two-time, second team all-conference selection, has also been named to the Nagurski Award, which honors college football's most outstanding defensive player.
The Wuerffel Trophy is presented annually to the
college football player "who best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement."
[1] The trophy is named in honor of former
University of Florida quarterback
Danny Wuerffel. The National College Football Awards will continue announcements of preseason candidates for national recognition in college football next week.
USF is now represented on 10 national award watch lists by eight players: senior quarterback
Quinton Flowers (Maxwell), senior punter
Jonathan Hernandez (Ray Guy), senior running back
D'Ernest Johson (Hornung), senior cornerback
Deatrick Nichols (Bednarik, Nagurski & Thorpe), senior center
Cameron Ruff (Rimington), senior linebacker
Auggie Sanchez (Nagurski & Wuerffel), senior defensive lineman
Deadrin Senat (Nagurski & Outland) and sophomore tight end
Mitchell Wilcox (Mackey).
Sanchez, who graduated with a 3.5 grade-point average in communications and is pursuing a master's degree, brings 303 career tackles into his senior season, which rank second among all returners nationally and stand sixth all-time at USF, 64 away from the career record. He has started every game at linebacker over the last three seasons and is the quarterback of the Bulls' defense. Sanchez posted more than 100 tackles in consecutive seasons and his 120 tackles in 2016 rank second on USF's all-time season list, just one off the record. He led USF with a career-best 6.0 sacks and ranked second on the team with 8.5 tackles for loss to go along with an interception, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and three pass breakups last year. Sanchez led the team in tackles in six games last season and has done so 15 times on his career with 12 double-digit tackle games.
ABOUT THE AWARD
The Wuerffel Trophy, known as "College Football's Premier Award for Community Service," is presented annually by the All Sports Association in Fort Walton Beach Florida. Named after 1996 Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Danny Wuerffel from the University of Florida, the Wuerffel Trophy is awarded to the FBS player that best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement.
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USF finished the 2016 season ranked No. 19 in the Associated Press poll with a school-record 11 wins following the program's fifth-ever bowl victory in the Birmingham Bowl. The Bulls' 11-2 record marked the fifth-best winning percentage in FBS football in 2016 and one of just 11 teams to reach 11 wins. USF set nearly 40 team and individual records in 2016, including team records for total yards (6,650), rushing yards (3,714), touchdowns (77) and scoring (569). Junior quarterback Quinton Flowers was named the American Conference Offensive Player of the Year and led a school-record 10 players named to the all-conference team, six of which, including Flowers, will return in 2017.
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