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Boise State Athletics
Mason Hampton Named Mountain West Male Scholar-Athlete Of The Year
7/19/2018 12:00:00 PM | Football
BOISE, Idaho - Former Boise State football center Mason Hampton was named the 2017-18 Mountain West Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year Thursday, becoming the first Boise State student-athlete, male or female, to earn the conference's top academic honor.
Hampton, who graduated in December with a degree in Accountancy and a 3.97 cumulative grade-point average, was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Football First Team for the second-straight season in 2017. The honor was not only the sixth all-time for the football program, it also made Hampton just the second Bronco student-athlete to ever be named a two-time first-team All-American, joining former track & field standout Abbey Elsberry (2003-04).
When Hampton was named to the Academic All-America First Team for the first time in 2016, it was the football program's first such honor since Nate Potter was recognized in 2011.
Hampton was also named a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy in 2017, and to the National Football Foundation's 2017 Scholar-Athlete Class, for which he earned a postgraduate scholarship worth $18,000. Hampton traveled to New York for the NFF's annual awards dinner on Dec. 5.
On the field, Hampton racked up an equal amount of honors as Boise State's starting center from 2016-17. Last season, despite missing a game due to injury, Hampton was named to the All-Mountain West First Team and a candidate for the Rimington Trophy, given annually to the top center in the nation. He was a major factor in the progress of Boise State's young offensive line, which helped running back Alexander Mattison to his first-career 1,000-yard campaign and the ninth-straight by a Bronco back.
That followed a 2016 season in which Hampton started all 11 games in which he appeared and was named All-Mountain West honorable mention.The Meridian native anchored a Bronco line that paved the way for the Mountain West's top offense at 472.8 yards per game, and helped produce a 1,000-yard rushing season by a Bronco running back as Doak Walker semifinalist Jeremy McNichols piled up 1,709 yards on the ground, sixth-most in the FBS.
Hampton, who graduated in December with a degree in Accountancy and a 3.97 cumulative grade-point average, was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Football First Team for the second-straight season in 2017. The honor was not only the sixth all-time for the football program, it also made Hampton just the second Bronco student-athlete to ever be named a two-time first-team All-American, joining former track & field standout Abbey Elsberry (2003-04).
When Hampton was named to the Academic All-America First Team for the first time in 2016, it was the football program's first such honor since Nate Potter was recognized in 2011.
Hampton was also named a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy in 2017, and to the National Football Foundation's 2017 Scholar-Athlete Class, for which he earned a postgraduate scholarship worth $18,000. Hampton traveled to New York for the NFF's annual awards dinner on Dec. 5.
On the field, Hampton racked up an equal amount of honors as Boise State's starting center from 2016-17. Last season, despite missing a game due to injury, Hampton was named to the All-Mountain West First Team and a candidate for the Rimington Trophy, given annually to the top center in the nation. He was a major factor in the progress of Boise State's young offensive line, which helped running back Alexander Mattison to his first-career 1,000-yard campaign and the ninth-straight by a Bronco back.
That followed a 2016 season in which Hampton started all 11 games in which he appeared and was named All-Mountain West honorable mention.The Meridian native anchored a Bronco line that paved the way for the Mountain West's top offense at 472.8 yards per game, and helped produce a 1,000-yard rushing season by a Bronco running back as Doak Walker semifinalist Jeremy McNichols piled up 1,709 yards on the ground, sixth-most in the FBS.
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