Sewanee's Brantley Named Middle Tennessee's Top Scholar-Athlete

Sewanee's Brantley Named Middle Tennessee's Top Scholar-Athlete

(Story taken from the Sewanee website)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Not only was Sewanee's Tyler Brantley named a Charles W. Hawkins and Joe C. Davis Collegiate Scholar-Athlete Tuesday night in Nashville, he also received the CR Bickerstaff/Coach Bill Pace University Scholar-Athlete Award at the National Football Foundation's Middle Tennessee Chapter 43rd annual awards dinner. The latter award is presented to the top university football scholar-athlete in Middle Tennessee. The award criteria are "scholarship, sportsmanship and value to the team." Among those nominated were athletes from MTSU, Austin Peay and Vanderbilt, among others.

Brantley, a senior natural resources major, was a four-year letterman of the football team and led the Tigers this year with 71 tackles as a defensive back. Brantley was an All-SCAC selection as a senior and was named to the SCAC Academic Honor Roll all four years. He is a Wilkins Scholar, has served as president of the Honor Council, VP of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and is a member of the Order of Gownsmen. The Danielsville, Georgia native taught underprivileged schoolchildren in Tanzania, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, co-founded the B.A.M. organization which helps build strong, healthy leaders in the world and has volunteered for his fraternity and his church.

"It was just a great evening to see Tyler recognized among his peers as well as so many high school players and coaches. Tyler represents Sewanee so well as a student, football player, and a humanitarian. It was a great evening to spend with him and Sewanee should be very proud," said Sewanee head Coach Robert Black.

To read the 3/11 Nashville Tennessean article, click here.

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