Carswell Thorpe Award Candidate |
Oklahoma City, OK -- Clemson safety Robert Carswell is one of 40 players
named to this year's preseason watch list for the Jim Thorpe Award. The Thorpe Award has been presented annually since 1986 to the best defensive back in college football. This is the second straight year Carswell has been named to the preseason list. Carswell was a first-team All-ACC selection last year and has been named a first-team All-American by eight different services this summer. A native of Stone Mountain, GA, Carswell needs just 13 tackles to break Terry Kinard's Clemson record for tackles by a defensive back. He has 282 heading into this season. A year ago, Carswell had six interceptions to rank in a tie for 10th in the nation. Other ACC defensive backs on the list include Tay Cody of Florida State, Derrick Gibson of Florida State, and Errol Hood of North Carolina. Glover Advances in US Amateur Springfield, NJ -- Clemson rising senior Lucas Glover advanced to the final 32 of the United States Amateur with a 6-and-5 victory over Parker Foster of Tulsa, OK. Glover now advances to play Georgia Tech rising sophomore Matt Weibring in the second round. The US Amateur is being played at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey. The competition culminates with the 36-hole championship on Sunday. Glover, a native of Greenville, SC, is trying to be the first Clemson golfer since Chris Patton in 1989 to win this event. Two players with ties to Clemson were defeated on Wednesday. D.J. Trahan, a rising sophomore at Clemson, was defeated by Nick Watney of Dixon, CA and Fresno State University, four-and-three. Trahan earlier this summer won the United States Public Links Championship and will play in the 2001 Master's. Recent Clemson graduate Jonathan Byrd was defeated by David Eger of Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, three and two. It was the second straight year that Byrd had made the match play portion of the national competition, then lost in the first round. Byrd will turn professional soon.
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