Bulls center recognized for leadership and excellence in serving the community
TAMPA, OCT. 19, 2023 – Starting USF Football center Mike Lofton (Clearwater) has been named to the watch list for the 2023 Wuerffel Trophy honoring college football’s most impactful leaders in community service.
The Wuerffel Trophy is presented to the FBS player who best combines exemplary community service with leadership achievement on and off the field. National voters consider nominees from over 100 major universities. The Wuerffel Trophy is named for Danny Wuerffel, 1996 National Championship winning quarterback of the University of Florida Gators – who is renowned for his commitment to service and leadership. The Wuerffel Trophy is the premier major college football award that places the majority of its voting emphasis on Community Service.
Lofton has started all seven games of the 2023 season at center for the Bulls after making three starts and playing in all 12 games in 2022, his first season at USF after transferring from the University of Central Florida.
An AAC All-Academic honoree, Lofton owns a 3.3 grade-point average in health science. A Bulls team captain, he is also highly involved in other athletics leadership positions, serving on the AAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee as well as USF’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the Black Student-Athlete Advisory Committee as well as participating in the USF Leadership Academy.
Lofton served as the host of the 2023 Stampede of Champions, a USF student-athlete run athletics awards event, and is active in community service participating in Think BIG for Kids, USF Day in Green and Gold, Victory Day (Special Olympics event) and several other team community events.
Lofton and the Bulls (3-4; 2-2 AAC) travel to UConn (1-5) this Saturday for a 3:30 p.m. kickoff on CBS Sports Network.
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The USF football program first took the field in 1997 and completed its 26th season in 2022 while completing construction on a new $22 million Indoor Performance Facility. The Bulls have posted 15 winning seasons, earned 16 All-America selections, including 2021 consensus All-American kick returner Brian Battie, and had 32 first-team all-conference selections. USF has had 30 players selected in the NFL Draft and has made 10 bowl game appearances (going 6-4 in those games), posting a program-record six straight appearances from 2005-2010 and most recently making four straight bowl appearances from 2015-18. The Bulls posted back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2016 and 2017, logging a program-record 11-2 mark in 2016 while finishing both seasons ranked in the Top 25. USF spent a program-record 20 straight weeks ranked in the Top 25 during the 2016 and 2017 seasons and reached as high as No. 2 in the national rankings during the 2007 season.
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