Three MWC Football Players Represented on 2009 Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List

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May 21, 2009

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - 

Three Mountain West Conference football players are among the candidates for the 2009 Rimington Trophy, given to the nation's top center. Tim Walter (Colorado State), Eric Cook (New Mexico) and Trask Iosefa (San Diego State) were named to the 2009 spring watch list, which currently is comprised of 44 college football players.


Walter, a 6-foot-6, 290-pound senior out of Manhattan Beach, Calif., was an all-conference performer for Colorado State in 2008. He will anchor a veteran offensive line that will feature four senior starters. The Rams' roster leads the nation with 125 combined career starts on the offensive line. With 27 career starts at center, including all 13 games last season, Walter will play a key role in for Colorado State in 2009 as the team breaks in new starters at both quarterback and running back.


Cook was a second-team all-conference selection in 2008. The 6-6, 315-pound senior from Albuquerque, N.M., was the leader of an offensive line that paved the way for the nation's 16th-ranked rushing attack.


Iosefa has started in 24 consecutive games for San Diego State over the past two seasons.  The 6-0, 315-pound junior from Ewa Beach, Hawaii, came to San Diego State in the spring of 2006, before redshirting later that season.


The process

While more than a dozen All-America football teams are selected annually, the Rimington Trophy committee uses these four prestigious teams to determine a winner:



    

  • American Football Coaches Association

  • Walter Camp Foundation

  • Sporting News

  • Football Writers Association of America


Because the selectors of these four All-America teams can place centers in a mix of offensive linemen that includes guards and tackles, their 11-man first teams can often have two centers. The Rimington Committee's policy is to count all players that play primarily the center position for their respective teams as centers, even though they may be listed as guards or tackles on the four All-America teams.


The winner will be honored at the Rimington Trophy presentation banquet at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln, Neb., in January.


About the award

The 10-year-old trophy 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, Michigan's David Baas, LSU's Ben Wilkerson, Minnesota's Greg Eslinger, West Virginia's Dan Mozes, Arkansas' Jonathan Luigs and, last season, Penn State's A.Q. Shipley.


Since its inception in 2000, the Rimington Trophy has raised more than $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 better than $73 million for CF research.


Dave Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982. He also became the Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman.


The Rimington Trophy is a fully accredited member of the National College Football Awards Association.


The following is a list of those named to the 2009 Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List.






	2009 Rimington Trophy Spring Watch List




	Student-Athlete
	School
	Height
	Weight
	Class




Eddie Adamski
Northern Illinois
6'3"
280
RS Senior




Kenny Alfred
Washington State
6'2"
310
RS Senior




Garrett Anderson	
 Carolina
6'4"
307
Senior




Tim Barnes
Missouri
6'4"
305
Junior




Carl Barnett
Houston
6'2"
285
RS Senior




Colin Baxter
Arizona
6'4"
295
Junior




Joe Bernardi
Fresno State
6'3"
290
Junior




Ryan Blaszczyk
Rutgers
6'4"
295
Senior 




Ben Bojicic
Bowling Green
6'4"
273
RS Sophomore




Mike Brewster
Ohio State
6'5"
296
Sophomore




J.C. Brignone
Mississippi State
6'2"
300
Junior




Ben Burkett
Northwestern
6'4"
280
Sophomore




Thomas Byrd
Boise State
5'11"
275
Sophomore




Ronnie Castillo
San Jose State
6'0"
292
Senior




Eric Cook
New Mexico
6'6"
315
Senior




Lowell Dyer
North Carolina
6'4"
290
Senior 




John Estes
Hawaii
6'2"
290
Senior 




Daverin Geralds
Mississippi
6'2"
312
Senior




Jorge Gonzalez
Kentucky
6'3"
305
Senior 




Chris Hall
Texas
6'4"
300
Senior 




Jacob Hickman
Nebraska
6'4"
295
Senior




Trask Iosefa
San Diego State
6'0"
315
Junior




Ted Larsen
North Carolina State
6'2"
295
Senior 




Kevin Matthews
Texas A&M
6'4"
297
Senior




Jim McKenzie
Syracuse
6'4"
286
Junior




Ryan McMahon
Florida State
6'3"
282
RS Junior




Colin Miller
Central Michigan
6'3"
291
Junior 




John Moffitt
Wisconsin
6'2"
313
Junior




David Molk
Michigan
6'2"
383
RS Sophomore




Bryan Morgan
Duke
6'3"
250
Junior




Joel Nitchman
Michigan State
6'3"
296
Senior




Kristofer O' Dowd
USC
6'5"
300
Junior




Maurkice Pouncey
Florida
6'5"
318
Junior




Lon Roberts
Louisiana Tech
6'3"
277
RS Junior




Jake Seitz
Alabama-Birmingham
6'2"
290
Senior 




Brad Serini
Florida International
6'3"
300
Junior




Matthew Tennant
Boston College
6'4"
284
Junior 




Mark Thompson
Middle Tennessee
6'5"
302
RS Senior




Bradley Vierling
Vanderbilt
6'2"
294
RS Senior




Tim Walter
Colorado State
6'6"
290
Senior




J.D. Walton
Baylor
6'3"
305
Senior




Dan Wenger
Notre Dame
6'4"
302
Senior













 




 
























      		

        		
	
	
			

        		              
        

    
 
			
	

		

			

    
    




    




			

    
    

	




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