7 GT Football Players Named To ACC All-Academic Team

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Buzzbomb said:
Clayton Powell-Lee, Dylan Leonard, Gavin Stewart, Henry Freer, Jude Kelley, Jason Moore, and David Shanahan were the Yellow Jackets that were named.

Freer is the first football student-athlete to ever be admitted to a Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech during his playing career.

https://www.si.com/college/georgiat...ds-seven-players-on-the-all-acc-academic-team
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Of further note, Freer and Moore are engineering majors. The people with the ability to accomplish that AND play D1 P5 sports are very rare indeed. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around that.

I know or have known many engineers through the years as well as many guys/gals who played one sport or another collegiately. But I have only met (and worked with) one individual who played D1 college FB (at Tech FWIW and was good enough to get invited to some NFL camps as a UDFA) and majored in engineering. He was as impressive an individual in person as his resume would suggest but at the same time, one of the most humble and genuine people I have met.
 

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Ellis Gardner was an EE grad with 3.6 GPA. Graduated with highest GPA in EE his senior year. Played pro ball. There was a plaque on the wall in the EE building honoring his accomplishment when I was a student. He was from Chattanooga. There were a few athletes in EE with me. I had a couple of classes with Herman Lamm in the early 70's. Very rare though.
 
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g0lftime said:
Ellis Gardner was an EE grad with 3.6 GPA. Graduated with highest GPA in EE his senior year. Played pro ball. There was a plaque on the wall in the EE building honoring his accomplishment when I was a student. He was from Chattanooga. There were a few athletes in EE with me. I had a couple of classes with Herman Lamm in the early 70's. Very rare though.
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I think Gardner and Sheldon Fox must have overlapped by a year or two. I think Fox graduated in 1980 with a 4.0 in EE while playing LB.

Pretty sure Gardner tutored my wife through one of her EE classes.
 
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