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January 11th, 2009, 06:47 AM
Mountaineer Football Notebook: Banks’ Award Tops Plethora of Post-Holiday News
Courtesy: Appalachian Sports Information
Release: 01/05/2009
Courtesy: David Scearce
Pierre Banks is one of six finalists for two FCS ADA postgraduate scholarships.
BOONE, N.C. — Headlining a wide array of Appalachian State University football news to bring in the new year, linebacker Pierre Banks has been named one of six finalists for the eighth-annual NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association (FCS ADA) postgraduate scholarship. The designation comes in conjunction with the senior’s inclusion on the 43-member FCS ADA Academic All-Star Team for the second-straight year.
Banks, who set an NCAA all-divisions record by playing in 61 games for Appalachian from 2004-08, received the honor after a career that embodied the term student-athlete. On the field, he was a first-team all-America selection in 2007, three-time all-Southern Conference performer, two-year team captain and finished his career with 373 total tackles, good for fifth all-time at ASU.
Off the field, Banks needed only three years to earn a bachelor’s degree in communication - electronic media/broadcasting with a 3.24 grade point average and completed course work for a master’s degree in educational media in a year-and-a-half. He carried a sterling 3.91 grade point average in graduate studies into the 2008 fall semester.
Banks has a one-in-three chance of receiving one of the FCS ADA’s two $5,000 postgraduate scholarships, which will be presented at June’s National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics convention in Orlando.
Courtesy: Appalachian Sports Information
Release: 01/05/2009
Courtesy: David Scearce
Pierre Banks is one of six finalists for two FCS ADA postgraduate scholarships.
BOONE, N.C. — Headlining a wide array of Appalachian State University football news to bring in the new year, linebacker Pierre Banks has been named one of six finalists for the eighth-annual NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association (FCS ADA) postgraduate scholarship. The designation comes in conjunction with the senior’s inclusion on the 43-member FCS ADA Academic All-Star Team for the second-straight year.
Banks, who set an NCAA all-divisions record by playing in 61 games for Appalachian from 2004-08, received the honor after a career that embodied the term student-athlete. On the field, he was a first-team all-America selection in 2007, three-time all-Southern Conference performer, two-year team captain and finished his career with 373 total tackles, good for fifth all-time at ASU.
Off the field, Banks needed only three years to earn a bachelor’s degree in communication - electronic media/broadcasting with a 3.24 grade point average and completed course work for a master’s degree in educational media in a year-and-a-half. He carried a sterling 3.91 grade point average in graduate studies into the 2008 fall semester.
Banks has a one-in-three chance of receiving one of the FCS ADA’s two $5,000 postgraduate scholarships, which will be presented at June’s National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics convention in Orlando.