Vanderbilt Football | Stowers Named Finalist for Campbell Trophy

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt soccer student-athlete Eli Stowers has been chosen as a finalist for the 2025 William V. Campbell Trophy®, the nation’s premier scholar-athlete award, it was introduced by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame on Wednesday. As a finalist, he’s additionally a member of the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class, offered by Fidelity Investments and can obtain an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship.

Stowers and the opposite finalists might be honored on Tuesday, Dec. 9 on the 67th NFF Annual Awards Dinner on the Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

The Campbell Trophy^® acknowledges a person as the very best soccer scholar-athlete within the nation for his mixed educational success, soccer efficiency and exemplary management. To be eligible for the award, candidates have to be a senior who will full his closing yr of eligibility within the 2025 season or a graduate scholar or graduate switch who has already earned a level and is taking part within the 2025 season; have an undergraduate grade-point common of not less than 3.2 on a 4.0 scale; have excellent soccer skill as a first-team participant or important contributor; and have demonstrated sturdy management and citizenship.

He is the fourth Commodore within the historical past of this system to be named an NFF Scholar-Athlete, and the primary since Hunter Hillenmeyer was chosen in 2002.

Stowers can be a semifinalist for the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award offered to a person who has demonstrated a document of management by exhibiting distinctive braveness, integrity and sportsmanship each on and off the sector.

A second-team midseason All-America choice by Sports Illustrated, Stowers leads the Commodores with 28 catches and 355 receiving yards this fall and has scored a pair of touchdowns, serving to Vandy to a 6-1 begin and its first look within the high 10 of the Associated Press ballot since 1947. He at present stands sixth nationally amongst tight ends in receiving yards, and can be within the high 10 in profession receiving yards and common yards per catch—rating fourth (1,359) and seventh (12.1), respectively—amongst all energetic gamers on the place.

He wants simply seven receiving yards to document 1,000 in his time as a Commodore after pacing the workforce with 49 receptions, 638 receiving yards and 5 landing catches his first season with this system. The Denton, Texas, resident was voted first-team All-SEC and chosen third-team All-America by Phil Steele whereas being named a semifinalist for the John Mackey Award final fall.

Stowers graduated from New Mexico State with a 3.92 cumulative grade-point common in 2024, and after including a grasp’s diploma in finance from Vanderbilt earlier this yr he made the 2024-25 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll. This fall, he has continued his work within the classroom pursuing a grasp’s of authorized research diploma.

Stowers was elected a workforce captain previous to the beginning of this season, and since coming to this system he has contributed quite a few philanthropic efforts highlighted by volunteering on the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, his participation in Social Impact Day with the Pencil Foundation and Metro Nashville Public Schools, and his help of the Dancing Dores fundraiser and the division’s SAAC Holiday Party.

Vanderbilt will play host to No. 15/14 Missouri Saturday at FirstFinancial institution Stadium, with the competition kicking off at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN.