Texas A&M Football’s Bond Named Campbell Trophy Semifinalist – WTAW

News release from Texas A&M Athletics:

IRVING, Texas – Texas A&M football’s Randy Bond was named a semifinalist for the 2024 William V. Campbell Trophy, the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame announced Wednesday. Celebrating its 35th year, the Campbell Trophy recognizes an individual as the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation for his combined academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership.

Bond has played in 27 games, including all four this season. He ranks fifth nationally and third in the SEC with nine field goals made this season, while his 10.0 points per game and 40 total points land among the top-25 in the country and top-eight league scorers. Bond has posted double-digit points in a game nine times in his career, racking up 14 points in the win over Bowling Green and 10 points in the McNeese victory this season. He recently made his way into the top-15 of A&M’s all-time scoring list with 230 points to-date. The Plano, Texas, native has sent 48 field goals through the uprights in his career, good for sixth in program history.

Bond recently earned his undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering in August, boasting a 3.46 cumulative GPA, and is working toward a master’s in engineering management. Bond has also dedicated time away from school and football at The Big Event, the largest one-day, student-run service project in the nation, as well as at the Brazos Valley Food Bank and Aggieland Humane Society.

Launched in 1959, the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards Presented by Fidelity Investments celebrate their 66th year in 2024. The awards were the first initiative in history to grant postgraduate scholarships based on both a player’s academic and athletic accomplishments, and the NFF has recognized 922 outstanding individuals since the program’s inception. This year’s postgraduate scholarships will push the program’s all-time distribution to more than $12.9 million.

The Campbell Trophy was first awarded in 1990, adding to the program’s prestige. Past recipients include two Rhodes Scholars, a Rhodes Scholar finalist, two Heisman Trophy winners and nine first-round NFL draft picks. Named in honor of the late Bill Campbell, the trophy has been prominently displayed inside its official home at the New York Athletic Club since 2013, and the winner is honored each year during a special luncheon at the storied venue.

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