Jan. 6, 2004
Thirty-three Georgia Tech football players–approximately one-third of the team–registered a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the fall, 2003 semester.
Those 33 are among the 163 Tech student-athletes in all sports who achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the fall semester, including five members of Tech’s nationally-ranked men’s basketball team: B.J. Elder, Marvin Lewis, Robert Brooks, David Nelson and Keith Jones.
Headlining the football student-athletes were Humanitarian Bowl Most Valuable Player and all-Atlantic Coast Conference selection P.J. Daniels, a sophomore tailback from Houston, Texas, as well as all-ACC honorees James Butler, a junior free safety from Climax, Ga.; Eric Henderson, a sophomore defensive end from New Orleans, La.; and senior tight end John Paul Foschi of Glen Head, N.Y.
Three football players, Alex Johnson, Cory Hixson and Zerbin Singleton, earned Faculty Honors with perfect 4.0 grade point averages.
Other starting football players to achieve a 3.0 or better include wide receiver Nate Curry, defensive end Gerris Wilkinson, defensive tackle Mansfield Wrotto, placekicker Dan Burnett, punter Andy Thomson and long-snapper Andrew Economos.
Also achieving this feat were defensive tackle Brad Brezina, quarterback Brian Camp, offensive linemen Garren Findlay, Will Hardy, Jeremy Phillips and Matt Rhodes, wide receiver Mark Logan, safety Chris Reis, tight end Gavin Tarquinio and defensive end Chirod Williams, all scholarship players, as well as kickers Travis Bell and Christian Schroeder, quarterback Robby Brown, defensive ends Travis Rogers and Arthur Rozier, and linebackers Jonathan Rowe and David Sanborn.
All Tech players were academically eligible for the Jackets’ Humanitarian Bowl victory over Tulsa.
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