Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bojicic Named to Rimington Watch List
May 22, 2009 | Football
May 22, 2009
NEW YORK CITY - The Rimington Trophy committee has released its 2009 Spring Watch List and Bowling Green State University football team member Ben Bojicic has been named to that list. Bojicic is just one of five sophomores on the entire watch list and just one of three players from the Mid-American Conference named to this honor.
In all, there are 44 players on the Watch List. The SEC checks in with the most candidates, with six players being named. The ACC, Big-12, Big Ten and WAC are represented by five players each on the Watch List.
Bojicic, a native of Farmington Hills, Mich., started all 12 games for the Falcons last season as a red-shirt freshman at the center position.
About the Rimington Trophy
The ten-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, co-winners Michigan 's David Baas and LSU's Ben Wilkerson, Minnesota 's Greg Eslinger, West Virginia 's Dan Mozes, Arkansas ' Jonathan Luigs, and Penn State's A.Q. Shipley. 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 $73 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.
The winner will be honored at Rimington Trophy Presentation banquet at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln , Nebraska , on January 16, 2009.
