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University of Oklahoma Athletics
Fields a Pop Warner College Football Award Finalist
December 22, 2021 | Football
NORMAN — University of Oklahoma football defensive back Pat Fields has been named one of six finalists for the 12th Annual Pop Warner College Football Award, it was announced Wednesday by Pop Warner Little Scholars. The award recognizes a senior who has made a difference on the field, in the classroom and in his community, and serves as a role model to Pop Warner's young student-athletes.
Fields is joined as a finalist by Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford, BYU center James Empey, California safety Elijah Hicks, Kentucky defensive end Joshua Paschal and UCLA defensive back Shea Pitts.
A fourth-year senior, Fields is OU's most decorated football player in 2021. He is also a finalist for the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year and was a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy and the Wuerffel Trophy. He graduated last week with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting and a master's degree in accounting, which he pursued simultaneously while maintaining a 3.82 GPA entering the fall semester.
The Tulsa, Okla., product 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 is a 2021 first-team Academic All-American, 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 Gibbens 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 Pop Warner College Football Award will be announced in January.
Previous recipients have included 2020 winner Ian Book (Notre Dame), Prince Amukamara (Nebraska), Chase Minnifield (Virginia), Sean Renfree (Duke), Gary Bush (Purdue), Jordan Richards (Stanford), Brandon Chubb (Wake Forest), Evan Engram (Mississippi), Braxton Berrios (Miami), CJ Conrad (Kentucky) and Michael Pittman Jr. (USC).
Fields is joined as a finalist by Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford, BYU center James Empey, California safety Elijah Hicks, Kentucky defensive end Joshua Paschal and UCLA defensive back Shea Pitts.
A fourth-year senior, Fields is OU's most decorated football player in 2021. He is also a finalist for the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year and was a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy and the Wuerffel Trophy. He graduated last week with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting and a master's degree in accounting, which he pursued simultaneously while maintaining a 3.82 GPA entering the fall semester.
The Tulsa, Okla., product 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 is a 2021 first-team Academic All-American, 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 Gibbens 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 Pop Warner College Football Award will be announced in January.
Previous recipients have included 2020 winner Ian Book (Notre Dame), Prince Amukamara (Nebraska), Chase Minnifield (Virginia), Sean Renfree (Duke), Gary Bush (Purdue), Jordan Richards (Stanford), Brandon Chubb (Wake Forest), Evan Engram (Mississippi), Braxton Berrios (Miami), CJ Conrad (Kentucky) and Michael Pittman Jr. (USC).
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