Included
in the 7/20/2018 News for CougGroup report, WSU center Mauigoa named to
Rimington Trophy watch list …”Washington State junior center Frederick Mauigoa
was named to the 2018 Rimington Trophy Fall Watch…”
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Below from
7/21/2018
Grip on
Sports: College football has a whole season these days wrapped around awards
and their watch lists
Sat., July
21, 2018, 7:41 a.m.
By Vince
Grippi Spokane S-R
A GRIP ON
SPORTS • What’s the biggest change in college football over the past half
century or so? There is a myriad of candidates, sure, but only one winner: the
proliferation of awards. Read on.
• There is
a little tongue-in-cheek with that answer, sure, but the sheer magnitude of
college football awards has gotten out of hand.
There is
an award for the best tight end (the John Mackey Award). There is one for the
best center (the Rimington Trophy). There are multiple awards for the best
player and the best quarterback. There are awards for the best wide receiver,
best lineman, best walk-on. There are awards for academics and integrity. There
are awards for head coaches and assistant coaches.
Heck,
there probably is an award for the best fan.
But it’s
not just the awards themselves that have proliferated over the years. We now
face a summer a filled with “watch lists.” And, who, you may ask, is on a watch
list?
Just about
every player in the nation.
In a
sense, that’s true, when you consider many awards have a preseason watch list
and then, after the games are actually played, some names are dropped and
others added. And then there is the further winnowing – and adding – as the
season wears on.
It gets to
the point where there is so much noise, the awards get lost in it.
Sure, it’s
a great honor to be named to the Bednarik Award watch list. It signifies you
are one of the best defensive players in the nation. Or to the Maxwell Award
watch list. Or the Lou Groza.
But the
list is just a starting point. And sometimes hype overpowers performance. As
watch lists overpower our summer.
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Matt
Zimmerman named WSU registrar
July 20,
2018 from WSU News
PULLMAN,
Wash. – Matt Zimmerman was named Washington State University’s registrar
following a national search, provost Dan Bernardo announced Thursday,
July 19.
Zimmerman
has served as interim university registrar since July 2017.
“It has
been a pleasure to serve as interim registrar for the past year, and I am very
honored that WSU has provided me the opportunity to serve as registrar,”
Zimmerman says. “I look forward to leading the Registrar’s Office in our
mission to compassionately implement university policy and procedures, and to
provide innovative support to WSU students and faculty.”
A WSU
employee since 2008, Zimmerman was the associate registrar from 2013 to 2017.
He previously served as the university’s veterans coordinator and assistant
registrar.
“Matt
brings extensive leadership and management experience to this role,” says Eric
Godfrey, executive director of Enrollment Management Programs.
“He
possesses unparalleled integrity and over the past year as interim registrar,
Matt emerged as a key member of the enrollment leadership team. We are
fortunate to have him assume this important leadership role at WSU.”
Zimmerman
earned his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology Safety and Health from
Louisiana State University and his master’s in education from the University of
Oklahoma. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served as an officer
from 1983 to 2007.
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POSTSCRIPT
from NEWS for COUGGROUP CENTRAL:
Old news
from June 1, 2017. WSU official was named the UO's new registrar. UO said then
(in 2017), "A national search has led to the appointment of Julia Pomerenk
as assistant vice president and university registrar. Pomerenk will assume the
new role this summer after serving as registrar at Washington State University
for 14 years."
