Senior defensive end in the running for college football’s premier scholar-athlete award;
Finalists receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship
TAMPA, FLA., OCT. 3, 2019 – USF senior defensive end Kirk Livingstone (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) has been selected as a semifinalist for the 2019 William V. Campbell Trophy® Presented by Mazda, college football’s premier scholar-athlete award.
The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced 185 semifinalists for the award, which is celebrating its 30th year in 2019. The award recognizes an individual as the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation for his combined academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership.
The NFF will announce 12-14 finalists on Oct. 30, and each of them will receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as a member of the 2019 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class presented by Fidelity Investments. The finalists will travel to New York City for the 62nd NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 10, where their accomplishments will be highlighted in front of one of the most powerful audiences in all of sports.
Livingstone, a three-year starter for the Bulls, has posted 12 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, one sack and a fumble recovery on the season. He has 114 tackles and 25.5 tackles for loss on his career while earning his degree in health sciences in spring 2019 with a 3.6 grade-point average. He is currently in graduate school with hopes to become a physician’s assistant.
Livingstone was named a Google Cloud Academic All-District selection last year and is a four-time academic all-conference selection. He earned the team’s Academic Excellence Award in 2018 and has earned Athletics Honor Roll recognition in six semesters. Livingstone has also been active in the community logging 41.5 hours of community service over the course of his career at USF and volunteering at 11 different locations in the Tampa Bay region.
In addition, Livingstone was one of USF’s Gold Track winners last spring by completing enough optional career, leadership and personal enhancement programming to go along with an additional 20 hours in the community required for that designation. He is also a USF SAAC representative and a Selmon Mentoring Institute graduate, and Livingstone was selected to attend the 2019 NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum as the male representative for the American Athletic Conference.
USF travels to UConn Saturday for a noon clash with the Huskies that will be streamed live on CBSSports.com and air at 7 p.m. on CBS Sports Network. The Bulls return to Raymond James Stadium on Oct. 12 for a homecoming clash vs. BYU.
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Having completed just its 22nd season of football, and 19th at the FBS level, the USF football program has earned 10 bowl appearances, including a current run of four straight, and owns a record of 6-3 in bowl games. The Bulls have appeared in the national top 25 rankings in each of the past three seasons, including a program record run of 20 straight weeks in the top 25, and in 2018 reached the program’s 150th win faster than any FBS program in state of Florida history. USF has posted a pair of 10-plus win seasons in the last three years, including a program-record 11 wins (11-2) in 2016, and logged 15 winning seasons overall. Since first taking the field in 1997, the USF program has reached as high as No. 2 in the national rankings (2007), seen 30 players selected in the NFL Draft, 14 named All-American and 29 earn first-team all-conference selection.
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