Moon Township, Pa. – Robert Morris University senior linebacker Adam Wollet is one of 179 semifinalists for the 2018 William V. Campbell Trophy as announced by The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF). The award recognizes an individual as the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation.
 
A native of Poland, Ohio, Wollet has a perfect 4.0 grade point average while enrolled in the finance and data analytics integrated master's program. Wollet leads the Colonials and sits third in the Northeast Conference with 34 tackles, an average of 8.5 per game, through four games this season. The senior middle linebacker tallied 12 tackles at Bryant and added 11 in the team's home opener against Virginia State.
 
Wollet was named the 2017 Northeast Conference Fall Scholar-Athlete for football becoming the sixth different Colonial to receive the award. He was also named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Second Team. It marked the 10th time an RMU football player has received the honor while Wollet became just the fifth different player in team history to be recognized on the national level by CoSIDA. He was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District II Team each of the last two seasons and earned All-Northeast Conference Second Team honors for the first time in 2017.
 
Wollet led the NEC and was 17th in FCS at the end of the 2017 season with 108 tackles, an average of 9.8 per game. The total places him sixth all-time at Robert Morris as he became the first Colonials player to record triple-digit stops since Mike Cook had a school-record 117 tackles in 2013. The junior linebacker recorded at least 10 stops in seven of the team's 11 games this season, including a career-best 16 tackles against Sacred Heart. Wollet recorded five tackles for loss and broke up three passes as well.
 
Nominated by their schools, which are limited to one nominee each, candidates for the awards must be a senior or graduate student in their final year of playing eligibility, have a GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, have outstanding football ability as a first team player or significant contributor and have demonstrated strong leadership and citizenship. The class is selected each year by the NFF Awards Committee, which is comprised of a nationally recognized group of media, College Football Hall of Famers and athletics administrators.
 
Named in honor of the late Bill Campbell, former chairman of Intuit, former player and head coach at Columbia University and the 2004 recipient of the NFF's Gold Medal, the Campbell Trophy® is a 25-pound bronze trophy and increases the amount of the recipient's grant by $7,000 for a total postgraduate scholarship of $25,000. This year's postgraduate scholarships will push the program's all-time distribution to more than $11.5 million.