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TCU's Blake Schlueter Named Candidate for 2008 Rimington Award
Two-time all-MWC center earns second straight appearance on the watch list
August 21, 2008 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- For the eighth consecutive year, the Mountain West Conference is represented on the official watch list for the Rimington Trophy, as TCU standout Blake Schlueter is one of 43 student-athletes named to the watch list for the 2008 award. Now in its ninth year of existence, the Rimington Trophy honors the nation's top center. A preseason All-American, Schlueter is a two-time All-Mountain West Conference selection. The senior from Ganado, Texas, was also a first-team choice last season on Dave Campbell's Texas Football All-Texas College Team. Schlueter, a 6-3, 272-lb. center, is making his second straight appearance on the Rimington Watch List. The rising senior has started all but one game over the last two seasons. The winner will be honored at the Rimington Trophy Presentation banquet at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln, Nebraska, on January 17, 2009. The nine-year old Rimington Trophy Award is presented by the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Past recipients include Nebraska's Dominic Raiola, Ohio State's LeCharles Bentley, Miami's Brett Romberg, Virginia Tech's Jake Grove, co-winners Michigan's David Baas and LSU's Ben Wilkerson, Minnesota's Greg Eslinger, West Virginia's Dan Mozes, and Arkansas' Jonathan Luigs. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy Award has raised over $1.3 million for the award's benefactor, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which is hosted by the Boomer Esiason Foundation that to date has raised over $65 milllion for CF Research. Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at 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. Rimington and Esiason were teammates on the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals from 1984-87. The MWC has placed at least one student-athlete on the Rimington Award watch list each of the past eight seasons, including a league-record seven individuals in 2005. Former New Mexico standout Ryan Cook is the only Mountain West player to have been named to the watch list three consecutive years (2003, 2004 and 2005). PREVIOUS MWC REPRESENTATIVES ON RIMINGTON AWARD WATCH LIST AIR FORCE BYU COLORADO STATE NEW MEXICO SAN DIEGO STATE TCU UTAH WYOMING
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