Leonard Named to Wuerffel Trophy Watch Checklist

TALLAHASSEE – Florida State redshirt senior offensive lineman Richie Leonard IV is a nominee for the Allstate Wuerffel Trophy, offered to the FBS participant who finest combines exemplary group service with management achievement on and off the sector.

Earlier this month, Leonard was Florida State’s nominee for the AFCA Allstate Good Works Team, which acknowledges the additional efforts made by school soccer gamers off the sector.

Leonard, from Cocoa, Florida, based and runs the Richie H. Leonard Football Camp, held in his hometown. The occasion, began in 2024, is free for anybody fascinated by attending and attracted near 300 members in its first season. Sponsors from the occasion helped Leonard current a $5,000 donation to Cocoa High School’s soccer program.

Leonard was additionally a part of a mission journey, sponsored by FSU’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter, to Argentina in May of this yr. The week-long journey was half of a bigger purpose of educating native communities about American soccer and rising the sport overseas.

Additionally, Leonard helps sponsor an AAU basketball crew, participates in a number of initiatives with youngsters in Tallahassee and Cocoa, and is planning care packages for sufferers on the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. Leonard’s mom, Prishonda, is a breast most cancers survivor who obtained her chemotherapy therapies at Moffitt in 2021.

On the sector, Leonard has appeared in 35 video games with 17 begins in his profession. He began three of FSU’s first 4 video games in 2024 earlier than a season-ending harm minimize his season brief. He began all 12 video games with a team-high 755 snaps for Florida in 2023.

Former Florida State offensive lineman Dillan Gibbons received the Wuerffel Trophy in 2022.

Leonard and the Seminoles will open the 2025 season within the renovated Doak Campbell Stadium on August 30 at 3:30 p.m. towards Alabama. The contest will air nationally on ABC.

Preseason Award Watch Lists
Maxwell Award – Tommy Castellanos
Wuerffel Trophy – Richie Leonard IV