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Sweet Honors For Brick's Faccone At Sugar Bowl
The Wagner senior long snapper from Brick Memorial gets his moment to shine in New Orleans -- for his good works
Lots of college football players dream of walking on the field at the Superdome in New Orleans at the Sugar Bowl.
Brick Memorial graduate Phil Faccone will now be able to say he’s done it.
The Wagner senior long snapper isn’t in New Orleans to play in the national championship semifinal between Alabama and Ohio State, but he’s there for an honor that’s just as big. He’s one of 22 players who were named to the 2014 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. The game will be broadcast by ESPN.
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The award honors college players for the work they do off the field, and was announced back in September. The Good Works Team recognizes both community service and academic achievement.
“It’s really awesome,’’ Faccone told the Asbury Park Press. “I’m going to be alongside guys from Syracuse, Vanderbilt, guys like UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley, along with guys from Division II and Division III.’’
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Faccone, who is a three-year starter and two-time Sports Network all-America selection, holds a 3.74 GPA while majoring on sociology with a minor in government/politics.
His community service resume is lengthy, according to a news release from Wagner: He has directed or participated in a host of several community service initiatives, including Wagner’s Annual Bone Marrow Registry Drive and the Crescent Beach Restoration Project, which aids one of the many Staten Island communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012, to name just a few. In June, Faccone took part in Lauren’s First and Goal Camp at Lafayette College, a non-profit organization started in 2004 by John and Marianne Loose in honor of their daughter, Lauren, a 17-year-old pediatric brain tumor survivor. Since its inception, LFG has raised more than $1 million toward its mission to provide financial support for brain tumor research and cancer services.
Faccone serves as vice president of Community Service for Wagner College’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. He also recently was elected president of Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society that recognizes achievement in a myriad of areas (scholarship, athletics, campus or community service, social or religious activities and campus government, journalism, speech and the mass media, and creative and performing arts). In addition, Faccone is secretary of the Wagner College chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
