NEW YORK – South Dakota State University center Jacob Ohnesorge has been named the winner of the 2017 Rimington Award for the Football Championship Subdivision.
A senior from Waunakee, Wis., Ohnesorge is a three-time all-Missouri Valley Football Conference selection, earning first-team honors during both his junior and senior seasons. He is expected to make his 53rd consecutive start Saturday, when the Jackrabbits travel to James Madison for an FCS playoff semifinal - a number that would match the most starts by a player in program history.
With Ohnesorge anchoring the offensive line, the Jackrabbits have scored a school-record 505 points this season – an average of 38.8 points per game – and are averaging 444.2 yards of total offense per game.
Earlier this week, Ohnesorge was named to the 2017 Associated Press FCS All-America First Team. He also recently received an invitation to play in the East-West Shrine Game Jan. 20 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Ohnesorge completed his degree in mechanical engineering last year and is currently enrolled in graduate school at SDSU. He has been honored on the MVFC Academic Honor Roll three times.
The Rimington Award winners for all divisions of college football are selected by Jason Dannelly, coordinator of the Rimington Award and longtime writer of college football in non-FBS divisions, as part of the continued tradition of one of College Football’s most prestigious awards.
The 2017 Rimington Trophy presentation banquet will be held January 13, 2018, at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the Most Outstanding Center in all divisions of College Football. Billy Price of Ohio State University was this year’s winner of the Rimington Trophy.
ABOUT THE RIMINGTON TROPHY
Since its inception, the seventeen-year old award has raised over $3.6 million for the Boomer Esiason Foundation, which is committed to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis and has raised over $130 million for the cystic fibrosis community.
Dave Rimington, the award’s namesake, was a consensus first-team All-America center at the University of Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the John Outland Trophy’s only two-time winner as the nation’s finest college interior lineman. For more on the Rimington Trophy and a list of past recipients, visit www.rimingtontrophy.com.
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