Pat Fields Named a Finalist for Campbell Trophy

NORMAN — University of Oklahoma football defensive back Pat Fields was selected as a member of the 2021 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Class on Wednesday, and as one of 13 finalists for the prestigious William V. Campbell Trophy will receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship, the National Football Foundation announced.

The NFF Scholar-Athlete Class was selected from a field of 176 semifinalists. The Campbell Trophy, in its 32nd year, is awarded to the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation for combined academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership.

A fourth-year senior, Fields has compiled a 3.82 GPA while simultaneously pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting and a master's degree in accounting. He is projected to complete both in December 2021.

Fields was a 2020 second-team Academic All-America selection and a 2019 and 2020 Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree and was a recipient of the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, OU's Dan Gibbons Outstanding Scholar Athlete of the Year Award and the 2020 Cotton Bowl's Dan S. Petty Scholarship Award. He was also a Big 12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year nominee and OU's nominee for the 2021 Big 12 Male Sportsperson of the Year award.

The Tulsa, Okla., product has twice been elected as a team captain by his teammates (2020 and 2021), and he completed a two-year term in the spring as one of two student-athletes nationally serving on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight and Competition Committee. He has worked as part of the leadership team of OU athletes that promoted social justice initiatives, voting education and registration and helped develop the Sooners for Humanity patch featured on all OU athletics uniforms for the 2020-21 athletics year.

Fields founded "Town Business," a financial literacy seminar that teaches high school football student-athletes about budgeting, money management, credit and personal branding. Along with other collegiate student-athletes and former NFL players, he conducted the first seminar in May in his hometown of Tulsa. He also founded the Black Wall Street Scholarship, collaborating with the president of the OU National Black Alumni Association to establish an endowment with the purpose of providing scholarships for underrepresented and lower income students from Tulsa, and coordinated a back-to-school event and football camp in July for economically vulnerable elementary school students in his hometown.

A three-year starter at safety, Fields has played in 38 career games (32 starts) and has compiled 168 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, 10 pass breakups and an interception. He ranks second on the team with his 47 tackles (30 solo) and has 1.5 tackles for loss through eight games this season.

The Campbell Trophy finalists will travel to the ARIA Resort & Casino Las Vegas for the 63rd NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 7. During the event, one member of the class will be declared the winner of the 32nd Campbell Trophy and have his postgraduate scholarship increased to $25,000.

Nominated by their schools, 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.

Former Sooner center Ty Darlington was awarded the Campbell Trophy in 2015.

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Pat Fields Named a Finalist for Campbell Trophy

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