BOCA RATON, Fla. – (Dec. 10, 2019) – Florida Atlantic University, the 2019 Conference USA football champions, saw a league-high four members earn C-USA All-Freshman honors in league coach voting, and as announced by the league, on Tuesday. First-year running back Larry McCammon III, starting right guard Marquice Robinson, linebacker and special teams stalwart Eddie Williams, and Australian punter Matt Hayball all earned recognition on the squad.
McCammon is second on the team in rushing touchdowns with seven and third with 357 yards on the ground. Robinson has started all 13 games on the right side, in front of a running back corps that has totaled 2,209 yards and 29 rushing scores. Williams has 14 tackles in 10 games, plus scooped up a blocked punt and returned it for a touchdown in the C-USA title game. Hayball is fourth in the league in punting average at 43.1 yards per kick, with a league-high 28 fair catches, 19 punts going inside the 20-yard line (fifth best), and zero punts blocked.
Next on the docket for the quartet and the Owls is a matchup with SMU in the 2019 Cheribundi Boca Raton Bowl, at FAU Stadium on Saturday, Dec. 21.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
