Enright Named To Rimington Trophy Watch List
Junior One Of 43 Players Chosen
Aug. 21, 2008
NEW YORK CITY (SMU) - SMU junior Mitch Enright has been named to the 2008 Rimington Trophy Fall Watch List, the committee announced today. The Rimington Trophy is awarded annually to the outstanding college offensive center in the NCAA FBS Division.
Enright, a native of Southlake, Texas, started all 12 games at center for SMU in 2007. He was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Football Team and the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll and was a winner of a Conference USA Academic Medal. Enright, who graduated with a degree in management in three years, is currently pursuing his MBA from SMU's Cox School of Business.
The nine-year old trophy is presented by the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Past recipients include Nebraska's Dominic Raiola, Ohio State's LeCharles Bentley, Miami's Brett Romberg, Virginia Tech's Jake Grove, co-winners Michigan's David Baas and LSU's Ben Wilkerson, Minnesota's Greg Eslinger, West Virginia's Dan Mozes and Arkansas' Jonathan Luigs. Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first team All-America Center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's finest college interior lineman.
In all, there are 43 players on the Watch List. The winner will be honored at the Rimington Trophy Presentation banquet at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Nebraska on January 17, 2009.