(72dpi).jpg) Delaware
Seniors Honored at Annual Blue Hen
Touchdown Club Banquet
Date:
January 28, 2005
NEWARK, DE
-- The 18 seniors on the 2004 University
of Delaware football squad that captured
its second straight Atlantic 10 Conference
title and advanced to the NCAA I-AA
quarterfinals were honored Friday night at
the annual Blue Hen Touchdown Club Banquet
held at Clayton Hall on campus.
In
addition to recognizing the 18 seniors,
individual honors were also awarded to the
top senior players on offense, defense,
offensive line, and end as well as for
academic success and leadership. The
awards were based on a vote of the club
members. Head coach K.C. Keeler and each
of the seniors addressed the crowd during
the annual festivities. The Blue Hens
posted a 9-4 record during the 2004
campaign and tied NCAA I-AA national
champion James Madison and NCAA I-AA
semifinalist William & Mary for the
Atlantic 10 Conference title with a 7-1
league mark.
Cornerback
Sidney Haugabrook (Woodward/Atlanta, GA -
at right) and linebacker Mondoe Davis
(Woodside/Newport News, VA) were named
Co-Senior Defensive Players of the Year,
kicker Brad Shushman (St. Joseph's/St.
Joseph's, MI) and offensive tackle Trip
DelCampo (Cape Henlopen/Rehoboth, DE)
shared Co-Offensive Player of the Year
Award honors, DelCampo was named Senior
Offensive Lineman of the Year, defensive
lineman Chris Mooney
(Huntington/Huntington, NY) was honored as
Outstanding Player at End, fullback Sean
Bleiler (Parkland/Orefield, PA) was
honored with the Unsung Hero Award and the
Baker-Taylor Leadership Award and shared
the Captain's Award with Haugabrook, and
defensive end Ben Cross earned the Newark
Elks Club Scholar-Athlete Award.
In
addition to those seven players, other
seniors honored were safety Garron Bible
(Kingwood/Kingwood, TX), linebacker Craig
Browne (Wagner/Staten Island, NY),
defensive back Dave Camburn (Central Bucks
West/Doylestown, PA), wide receiver G.J.
Crescione (Pope John XXIII/Sparta, NJ),
center Chris Edwards
(Strath-Haven/Wallingford, PA), defensive
tackle Brian Jennings (St.
Stephen's/Arlington, VA), linebacker Ryan
McDermond (Marist/Atlanta, GA), linebacker
Mark Moore (Cape Henlopen/Lewes, DE),
defensive end Dominic Santoli (Bergen
Catholic/Westwood, NJ), offensive tackle
Paul Thomson (Huntington/Huntington, NY),
and offensive guard Jared Wray
(Hopewell/Hopewell, VA).
Haugabrook,
who started a school-record 51 straight
games, was a consensus All-American in
2004 as he earned first team honors by the
American Football Coaches Association and
Walter Camp Football Foundation and second
team honors by The Sports Network and the
Associated Press. He earned first team
All-Atlantic 10 honors as a defensive
back, kick returner, and punt returner -
becoming the first player in league
history to earn first team honors at three
different positions - and was only the
second player in UD history to earn
all-conference honors all four years. A
three-time Atlantic 10 Special Teams
Player of the Week, he also played in the
prestigious East-West Shrine college
football all-star game in San Francisco
earlier this month.
He posted
67 tackles, led the team with seven pass
breakups, and ranked among the national
leaders in punt returns (11.4 per return)
and kickoff returns (27.0 ppg) in 2004. In
addition he returned two punts for
touchdowns, one kickoff for a touchdown,
and established nine school records.
Davis was
Delaware's leading tackler for the second
straight year, recording 123 stops (75
solo) for the season, while also
intercepting two passes, posting 7.5
tackles for loss, two quarterback sacks,
five pass breakups, and three forced
fumble. He earned first team All-Atlantic
10 and first team All-East honors and was
named to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic team
for the third time in his career. He
recorded 342 career tackles (No. 6
all-time at Delaware) and tied a school
record with eight career forced fumbles.
DelCampo,
a former walk-on, was two-time Atlantic 10
selection, earning first team honors in
2004 after earning third team recognition
during the 2003 season. He also earned
first team All-East honors in 2004 after
helping the Delaware offense rank second
in the Atlantic 10 and 40th in the nation
in rushing at 167.0 yards per game. The
Hens allowed just 19 sacks all season.
Shushman,
a two-year regular at kicker for the Blue
Hens after transferring from the
University of Louisville, was the team's
leading scorer in 2004 with 82 points as
he converted 37 of 39 extra points and 15
of 22 field goals. He ranked 21st in NCAA
I-AA in field goals per game. In just two
seasons, he set school records with three
field goals in a game three times, 32
career field goals, and a career field
goal percentage of .696. He earned third
team All-Atlantic 10 honors following the
2003 season.
Mooney, a
three-year starter on the defensive line,
earned third team All-American honors by
The Sports Network this past season and
earned first team All-Atlantic 10 honors
after being named to the all-conference
second team in 2002 and 2003. An honor
student as an accounting major, he also
earned second team ESPN The
Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American
honors and first team CoSIDA District 2
All-Academic honors. He was a three-time
member of the Atlantic 10 Academic
All-Conference squad. He posted 42 total
tackles during the 2004 season, including
11 tackles for loss, 6.5 quarterback
sacks, three pass breakups, and two fumble
recoveries. He posted 16 career sacks.
After
three seasons as a special teams standout
and backup tight end and running back,
Bleiler earned a starting spot in the Blue
Hen backfield in 2004 and was off to an
outstanding start before suffering a
season-ending knee injury in the fifth
week of the season. For the season he
rushed 66 times for 333 yards and two
touchdowns and averaged 5.0 yards per
carry. He also caught five passes for 37
yards and posted his best effort vs.
Massachusetts when he ran for a
career-high 110 yards and one touchdown.
Despite the injury, he still attended
practices and was a strong leader on the
sidelines at games the remainder of the
season.
Cross, a
versatile regular on the defensive line
and at running back during his career,
became just the third player in UD history
and the first since 1973 to earn first
team CoSIDA Academic All-American honors
this fall. He also earned first team
CoSIDA District 2 All-Academic for the
third straight year and was a third-year
member of the Atlantic 10 Academic
All-Conference team. He was a CoSIDA
second team Academic All-American in 2003
when he also earned the inaugural Atlantic
10 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for
football. A civil engineering major with a
3.95 grade point index, he posted 23
tackles, including 5.5 for loss, this past
season.
Bible, a
first-year transfer from Notre Dame where
he started as a junior in 2003, started
all 13 games at Delaware this past fall
and recorded 73 tackles and two
interceptions. His 87-yard fumble return
for a touchdown vs. Lafayette clinched the
Hens' 28-14 NCAA I-AA first round playoff
victory.
Browne
appeared in 13 games as a backup
linebacker and special teams performer and
recorded nine tackles in 2004; Camburn was
a four-year regular in the UD defensive
secondary and posted four tackles in six
games in 2004 and had 103 career tackles;
Crescione was a four-year regular at wide
receiver and on special teams, catching 12
passes for 76 yards in 2004 and hauling in
30 receptions for 254 yards and four
touchdowns in his career; Edwards was a
two-year starter on the offensive line at
center and helped Delaware rank among the
Atlantic 10 rushing leaders in 2004; and
Jennings was a four-year regular and
part-time starter at defensive tackle and
registered 20 tackles, including five for
loss, in 2004.
McDermond
played two seasons at linebacker for the
Hens after transferring from Louisville
and recorded 103 tackles, including 14 in
2004; Moore, a three-year starter,
collected 67 tackles this past season and
192 for his career and twice earned CoSIDA
District 2 All-Academic honors as a
biolgoy education major; Santoli was a
three-year regular at defensive end and
posted 30 tackles, including seven for
loss and two quarterback sacks, in 2004
and nine career sacks; Thomson was a
three-year starter at offensive tackle and
helped lead one of the top rushing attacks
in the Atlantic 10; and Wray, a two-year
starter at guard, missed the entire 2004
season with a back injury after earning
pre-season All-Atlantic 10 honors.
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