University of Houston Athletics
Maxwell Award Snags Kolb As Preseason Candidate
6/21/2005 12:00:00 AM | Football
June 21, 2005
HOUSTON, Texas - For the second year in a row University of Houston quarterback Kevin Kolb finds the summer months full of prognostications, as the junior signal-caller today was named to the 69th Maxwell Award Preseason Watch Lists. The Maxwell Award is awarded to the nation's Collegiate Player of the Year.
A starter since his true freshman season in 2003, Kolb enters his third season at UH on a streak of 24 consecutive starts. Last season, he led Conference USA in total offense with 256.1 yards per game while finishing second in yards passing per game at 251.5. Kolb finished the 2004 season throwing for 2,766 yards and 11 touchdowns and enters the 2005 season ranked in the Top 10 of every UH passing mark.
The former 2003 Conference USA Freshman-of-the-Year, Kolb has passed for almost 6,000 yards (5,897) in his two-year career, completing 58.6 percent of his passes (418-of-713) with 36 touchdowns and only 12 interceptions. More impressively, Kolb's athletic ability has pushed his total offense numbers to 6,294 yards and 48 touchdowns responsible for.
Kolb threw for at least 200 yards in all but two games last season, topping 300 yards against Southern Miss (345) and Louisville (375). He connected for three touchdowns at TCU and had two a piece versus East Carolina and Louisville.
The Watch List includes a field of 50 candidates as selected by the Maxwell Football Club Advisory Committee. Additions and subtractions to the list, based on player performance, will be made throughout the 2005 football season.
Players selected to this initial watch list have distinguished themselves as All-Conference or All-America selections from their respective universities in past years. Underclassmen are selected based on recommendations from the Maxwell Football Club Advisory Committee.
The Maxwell Award Watch List has been created as a reference to provide additional assistance to eligible voters and to the media when evaluating potential candidates for this award. The watch list is not intended to represent an all-inclusive listing of candidates for the collegiate awards presented by the Maxwell Football Club of Philadelphia.
Ten semi-finalists will be announced in October 2005, and the field will be trimmed to three finalists in November 2005. The winner of the Maxwell Award will be announced at the Home Depot College Football Awards Show that will be broadcast on ESPN in December 2005. The formal presentation of the Maxwell Award will take place at the Maxwell Football Club Awards Banquet in February 2006.
All questions concerning this Watch List or the awards presented by the Maxwell Football Club can be directed to Mr. Robert Clark (Maxwell Football Club Executive Director) bobclark@maxwellfootballclub.org, or to Mr. Mark Wolpert (Sr. Vice President Collegiate Awards) mwolpert@maxwellfootballclub.org.
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