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Fields a Finalist for Collegiate Man of the Year
December 15, 2021 | Football
NORMAN — University of Oklahoma football defensive back Pat Fields was named Wednesday as one of three finalists for the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year, an award honoring exemplary leadership by a college football player.
Fields is joined as a finalist by Arkansas linebacker Grant Morgan and Kentucky defensive end Joshua Paschal.
A fourth-year senior who was also a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy and the Wuerffel Trophy, 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 next week.
A Tulsa, Okla., product, Fields has been a shining light when it comes to community activism, service and mentorship. He 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.
Fields 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. He has also spoken at local high schools and team camps from the spring and into the fall semester.
Fields was a 2020 second-team Academic All-America selection, a 2020 and '21 Academic All-District selection and a 2019, '20 and '21 Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree. He 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 Scholar-Athlete Award. He is also a two-time Big 12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year nominee and OU's nominee for the 2021 Big 12 Male Sportsperson of the Year award.
Twice elected as a team captain by his teammates (2020 and 2021), Fields 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.
A three-year starter at safety, Fields has played in 41 career games (35 starts) and has compiled 193 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, 10 pass breakups and three interceptions. He ranks second on the team with his 71 tackles (41 solo) and two interceptions and has 4.5 tackles for loss this season. He earned honorable mention All-Big 12 in 2019 and '21.
The winner of the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year award will be announced at a ceremony in Frisco, Texas, on Feb. 17, 2022.
In its fifth year of existence, the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year is the first college football honor to focus primarily on a player's leadership, both on and off the field. The winner of the award will also receive a $10,000 contribution in his name to his school's athletic scholarship fund.
Fields is joined as a finalist by Arkansas linebacker Grant Morgan and Kentucky defensive end Joshua Paschal.
A fourth-year senior who was also a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy and the Wuerffel Trophy, 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 next week.
A Tulsa, Okla., product, Fields has been a shining light when it comes to community activism, service and mentorship. He 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.
Fields 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. He has also spoken at local high schools and team camps from the spring and into the fall semester.
Fields was a 2020 second-team Academic All-America selection, a 2020 and '21 Academic All-District selection and a 2019, '20 and '21 Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree. He 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 Scholar-Athlete Award. He is also a two-time Big 12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year nominee and OU's nominee for the 2021 Big 12 Male Sportsperson of the Year award.
Twice elected as a team captain by his teammates (2020 and 2021), Fields 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.
A three-year starter at safety, Fields has played in 41 career games (35 starts) and has compiled 193 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, 10 pass breakups and three interceptions. He ranks second on the team with his 71 tackles (41 solo) and two interceptions and has 4.5 tackles for loss this season. He earned honorable mention All-Big 12 in 2019 and '21.
The winner of the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year award will be announced at a ceremony in Frisco, Texas, on Feb. 17, 2022.
In its fifth year of existence, the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year is the first college football honor to focus primarily on a player's leadership, both on and off the field. The winner of the award will also receive a $10,000 contribution in his name to his school's athletic scholarship fund.
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