Brycen Edwards Named Semifinalist For William V. Campbell Trophy

BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh senior linebacker Brycen Edwards has been named one in every of 177 semifinalists for the 2025 William V. Campbell Trophy, the National Football Foundation introduced Wednesday. The William V. Campbell Trophy acknowledges a person as the best possible soccer scholar-athlete within the nation for his mixed educational success, soccer efficiency and exemplary management.

A Fredericksburg, Va., native, Edwards holds a 3.34 GPA majoring in accounting and finance. He is a two-year member of the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll and made Lehigh’s Dean’s List with a GPA higher than 3.6 within the Fall 2024 semester.

Lehigh’s prime tackler in 2024 with 90 stops, Edwards was a Preseason All-Patriot League honoree. He leads the Mountain Hawks with 26 tackles by way of 4 video games and has added a sort out for loss, a cross breakup and a pair of quarterback hurries.

Edwards made a career-high 12 tackles in Lehigh’s NCAA playoff win at Richmond final November and opened this season with a team-leading eight tackles towards the Spiders.

For his profession, Edwards has 166 tackles, seven tackles for loss, a sack and an interception. He has performed 33 profession video games with 26 begins at linebacker.

This marks the seventh time within the final 9 years {that a} Lehigh soccer participant has been named a semifinalist for the Campbell Trophy. Mike DeNucci was acknowledged final yr and earlier than that latest semifinalists included Christian Jablonski (2023), RaShawn Allen (2021), Pete Haffner (2020), Harrison Kauffman (2018) and Jimmy Mitchell (2017).

The 177 semifinalists had been nominated by their faculties, that are restricted to at least one nominee per faculty. Candidates should be a senior or graduate scholar of their closing yr of eligibility and should have a GPA of no less than 3.2 on a 4.0 scale whereas additionally displaying excellent soccer capacity and powerful management and citizenship. The candidates come from all ranges of play within the NCAA and the NAIA. The class is chosen every year by the NFF Awards Committee, which is comprised of a nationally acknowledged group of media, College Football Hall of Famers and athletics directors. 

From the 177 semifinalists, the National Football Foundation will announce 12-16 finalists on October 22 and every of them will obtain an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as a member of the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class Presented by Fidelity Investments. One of the finalists will probably be named the winner of the thirty sixth Campbell Trophy throughout the 67th NFF Annual Awards Dinner Presented by Las Vegas on Dec. 9 and have his postgraduate scholarship elevated to $25,000.

 

The Mountain Hawks return to Goodman Stadium on Saturday to host Penn on Family Weekend, offered by Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute, a part of Jefferson Health, with recreation time set for midday. Tickets will be bought at LehighTickets.com or by calling 610-758-4263 throughout enterprise hours.

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