USC’s Anthony Beavers Jr. Named to 2025 Allstate Wuerffel Trophy Watch List

LOS ANGELES—Redshirt senior linebacker Anthony Beavers Jr. was named to the 2025 Allstate Wuerffel Trophy Watch List, in the present day (July 31). The Allstate Wuerffel Trophy is faculty soccer’s premier award for group service. The trophy is introduced yearly by the Wuerffel Foundation to the FBS participant who finest combines exemplary group service with management and efficiency on and off the sphere.

A local of South Central Los Angeles, Beavers is extraordinarily lively in the neighborhood with the aim of inspiring native youngsters to pursue increased training. He has additionally been chosen as a nominee for the 2025 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team.

Most lately, Beavers spearheaded a philanthropic occasion along with his teammates on USC’s campus. On June 24, the USC soccer staff hosted 75 first via fifth graders from LA’s BEST, an after-school enrichment program for LAUSD elementary college students, for a day of enjoyable and soccer. LA’s BEST gives college students with educational assist, nutritious meals and alternatives to take part in enrichment actions, all at zero price. Beavers, an alum of LA’s Best, needed to offer again to a company that helped form him as a baby.

As a first-generation faculty graduate, considered one of Beavers’ targets with this occasion was to encourage the youngsters of LA’s Best to pursue increased training. This was the primary time most of the youngsters had been on a university campus and interacted with student-athletes. In his 4 years at USC, Beavers has earned his bachelor’s diploma in psychology with a minor in occupational science, a graduate certificates in gerontology and is at present pursuing his grasp’s diploma in gerontology.

After the devastating wildfires destroyed the Pacific Palisades and Altadena in Los Angeles in January, Beavers labored at a fireplace reduction occasion with USC’s collective, House of Victory, along with native organizations together with Impact LA, ANE Foundation, AFTP Foundation and LoveChild Hospitality. He assisted within the consumption of donations, sorting, organizing and packing outgoing donations at a donation useful resource heart.

Beavers has additionally volunteered on the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank the place he sorted and packaged meals that have been distributed to native households in want.

Beavers has volunteered on the Dream Center in Echo Park, Calif. The Dream Center is a useful resource heart targeted on offering assist for the homeless and the hungry via residential and group outreach applications. Through its scorching meal program, the Dream Center serves 1000’s of free meals each day. Beavers helped put together and serve lunches throughout the Dream Center’s meal service and assisted with the Outdoor Pantry.

He additionally enjoys volunteering his time to educate youth soccer.

Beavers’ management throughout USC’s campus is intensive. He is an envoy for the USC Shoah Foundation Witness for the Future Student Leadership program. The Student Leadership program brings student-athletes to Washington, D.C., and Europe for a transformational journey and academic expertise that encourages them to embrace and activate their very own management platforms as they be taught to acknowledge the parts and penalties of antisemitism.

Beavers acknowledged that lots of his teammates didn’t have passports or had ever traveled in a foreign country, as there’s little time to journey overseas whereas enjoying Division I soccer. In 2024, he recruited 5 different soccer gamers to affix him to journey to Washington D.C. and Poland to find out about racism and antisemitism. They visited Auschwitz and discovered in regards to the Holocaust. The story was featured on Big Noon Kickoff.

Beavers continues to be an envoy for the Shoah Foundation Witness for the Future Student Leadership program. This summer time, he additionally recruited one other group of teammates to affix him on one other academic journey to Washinton D.C. and Berlin, Germany.

Beavers is the Co-President of USC’s United Black Student-Athletes Association. The UBSAA exists to empower and defend Black student-athletes at USC by offering a group and giving them a voice to advocate for assist inside USC Athletics and USC. They attempt to make use of their place of affect to enhance circumstances for the Black group inside USC and past.

Additionally, Beavers attended the 2025 Black Student Athlete Summit in Chicago this previous May. The Summit united student-athletes, athletic professionals and trade innovators for 4 days of programming. Participants engaged in profession improvement classes, monetary literacy workshops and wellness actions designed to organize them for all times past sports activities. Beavers was a panelist and mentioned the significance of getting a village of assist all through one’s collegiate profession.

On the sphere, Beavers seems to be to make an impression in 2025 as a linebacker. Throughout his four-year profession, he has 48 tackles, together with 1.5 for loss, 1 compelled fumble and 1 fumble restoration whereas showing in 37 video games with 6 begins.

Named after Heisman Trophy winner and College Football Hall of Famer, Danny Wuerffel, the award honors his dedication to inspiring larger service and unity on the planet.

The 2025 Allstate Wuerffel Trophy finalists and recipient shall be chosen by a nationwide voting committee, with enter from a fan vote. The 2025 recipient will even function Captain of the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team and shall be introduced reside on The Home Depot College Football Awards present on Dec. 12, airing on ESPN. The Allstate Wuerffel Trophy Presentation Gala will observe on Jan. 31, 2026, on the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.

Penn State’s Nick Dawkins, the 2024 recipient, joined Wuerffel in New York City for the 2024 Heisman Trophy ceremonies – a practice the 2025 recipient will proceed.