Penn State senior placekicker Sam Ficken is among the candidates for the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame’s Scholar-Athlete Fellowship and the prestigious William V. Campbell Trophy, presented by Fidelity Investments, to the nation’s premier college football student-athlete.
If awarded the honor, Ficken would become Penn State’s 18th NFF Scholar-Athlete recipient. Last year, All-America guard John Urschel became the Nittany Lions’ first recipient of the Campbell Trophy and the 17th Penn State football student-athlete to be selected an NFF Scholar-Athlete.
The 2013 Scholar-Athletes will be announced in late October and honored at the National Football Foundation’s 57th Annual black tie awards dinner on December 9 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Penn State two-time All-America linebacker Shane Conlan will be inducted into the NFF College Football Hall of Fame at the Dec. 9 black tie event.
Ficken is in his third season as the Nittany Lions’ starting placekicker and leads the Big Ten Conference, and is tied for ninth nationally, in field goals made per game (2.00). He has 207 career points to move into eighth place on the school career list. Ficken’s 38 career field goals are good for a tie for No. 8 on the Penn State list, with Matt Bahr and Robbie Gould tied for sixth with 39.
Ficken is on schedule to earn his bachelor’s degree in Finance in December, doing so in 3.5 years. He was selected Academic All-Big Ten in 2012 and ’13 and has been nominated for Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-America consideration the past two years.
This summer, Ficken was an intern with Merrill Lynch, working with the LATAM (Latin America) Linked Markets team.
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