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BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Campbell's Colten Burris, Sam Eberwein and Kurt Odom have been named First Team Football Academic All-District 3 by the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), announced today by the organization.
View a complete list of the honorees here.
The three Camels selected to the team ties a program high for a single year after three were also chosen in 2011 (Colten Burris, Kurt Odom, Michael Rudisill).
Burris, a repeat winner after capturing CoSIDA Academic All-District honors a year ago, stands seventh on the team in tackles with 45, after posting a career-high 13 stops against Valparaiso last week. The 2011 First Academic All-PFL and 2011 PFL Academic Honor Roll selection has played in eight games, making two starts.
In his first career start at San Diego, the Albemarle, N.C. native gathered nine tackles, and made seven stops at nationally-ranked Old Dominion. The redshirt sophomore linebacker carries a 3.95 GPA while majoring in information technology and security.
Senior kicker Sam Eberwein, collecting the honor for the first time in his career, was also a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation's Scholar-Athlete Award this season, and a Second Team Academic All-PFL performer in 2011. Eberwein owned a perfect 4.00 GPA during his undergraduate work, and holds a 3.6 in his graduate program.
A three-time PFL All-Academic selection, Eberwein is President of Campbell's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, the CU representative at Big South Leadership Conference, a CU Pharmacy and Presidential Scholar and a multiple recipient of the Campbell Scholar-Athlete Award, among others, while enrolled in the Campbell Dr. of Pharmacy & MBA joint degree program.
Odom, another repeat Academic All-District honoree for the Camels after earning a spot on the team last season, leads the Camels with seven touchdowns in 2012, including six rushing. The junior, who was named First Team Academic All-PFL as a sophomore while being a two-time PFL Academic Honor Roll member, stands seventh in the PFL in rushing at 56.6 yards per game, and is tied for fifth in overall scoring with his team-high 42 points on seven TD's.
The Robbinsville, N.C. native tallied a career day at Morehead State, tying a school record with 170 rushing yards and setting a CU single-game mark with 195 all-purpose yards on the way to an Honorable Mention nod from the College Football Performance Awards for National All Purpose Performer of the Week.
Odom and Burris are the third and fourth Camels to be honored by CoSIDA multiple times in their careers after Charles Fiore (DL - 2008, 09) and Mike Stryffeler (TE - 2009, 10). Andy Johnson (OL - 2010), Michael Rudisill (LB - 2011) have also earned Academic All-District status in the program's five-year history.
CoSIDA's District 3 includes NCAA Division I Football playing institutions from North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.
