Southern Arkansas’ Key To Be Honored In New York City

December 3, 2001

Magnolia, Ark.--Southern Arkansas University linebacker Eddie Key will be an honoree at the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame’s 44^th annual awards dinner December 11^th in New York City. The awards dinner is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Key, a 6-2, 220-pound senior from Longview (Pine Tree), Tex., is one of 16 student-athletes and one of two from NCAA Division II from across the nation selected as a winner of an $18,000 post-graduate scholarship. He has a 3.8 GPA in criminal justice on a 4.0 scale.

On the playing field, Key was first-team All-Gulf South Conference and has been named first-team All-NCAA Division II South Region announced today. As a junior, Key was first-team All-GSC and second-team All-South Region.

Key was the 2000-01 Male Scholar-Athlete, has won a Bill Gates Scholarship, was named to the GSC Honor Roll as a freshman and to the GSC All-Academic Team as a sophomore and junior. Freshmen are not eligible for All-Academic honors in the conference and the All-Academic Team for the present semester has not been announced at this time.

Two Arkansas natives, Barry Switzer and Keith Jackson, will be inducted into the College Hall of Fame at the banquet. Switzer was a highly-successful coach at the University of Oklahoma and Jackson was an All-American tight end at Oklahoma. Switzer is a native of Crossett and Jackson is from Little Rock. Switzer also coached the Dallas Cowboys and Jackson played for the Green Bay Packers.