Tim Tebow receives two more SEC honors
A day after nine Florida Gators football players were named to the 2009 All-SEC team as voted by the league’s head coaches, the Southeastern Conference announced that senior quarterback Tim Tebow has been named the 2009 SEC Offensive Player of the Year and 2009 SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Tebow, who also won both awards in 2008, was given the honors this year after eclipsing four NCAA records, 13 SEC records and 26 University of Florida records. He joins former Gators quarterbacks Shane Matthews (1990-91) and Danny Wuerffel (1995-96) as back-to-back winners of the SEC Offensive Player of the Year award. Tebow was honored Tuesday night with the 2009 William V. Campbell Trophy, also known as the “Academic Heisman.”
“This award means so much because it’s not just how you play on the field, it’s not just what you do in the classroom, but it’s what you do as a leader and someone who is going to serve your community,” Tebow said. “That’s what’s most important about this award, because all these guys are great players and they’re extremely intelligent, but more importantly, they’re good people. They help their community and they make a difference in this world. The National Football Foundation has done such a good job of taking us in, putting us together and letting us build relationships with each other. With so many of the members, it has been a blessing to get to know all these guys, great guys who you see on the field, but then when you really meet them, you get to know them as people, you get to build those relationships. I think that’s what’s so special about things like this.”
