KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Western Michigan redshirt junior linebacker Boone Bonnema has been named a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, college football’s premier scholar-athlete award.
Finalists will be announced October 25, with each finalist receiving an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as a member of the 2023 National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete Class Presented by Fidelity Investments.
Nominated by their schools, which are limited to one nominee each, candidates for the awards must be a senior or graduate student in their final year of playing eligibility, have a GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, have outstanding football ability as a first team player or significant contributor and have demonstrated strong leadership and citizenship. The class is selected each year by the NFF Awards Committee, which is comprised of a nationally recognized group of media, College Football Hall of Famers and athletics administrators.
Bonnema is a two-time Academic All-MAC selection and graduated with a degree in finance from WMU this past April. Bonnema posted an undergraduate GPA of 3.81 and is now pursuing a MBA from at Western Michigan’s Haworth College of Business.
The Zeeland, Michigan, native is the Vice President of WMU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council, the President of WMU’s chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, WMU’s chapter President for Uplifting Athletes (which raised $11,000 in July for people with rare diseases) and serves as a member of the team’s leadership council.
