By Danielle Daniels
Taulia Tagovailoa Maryland QB Talking Terps Football July 2023.mp3
THE TAULIA FILE
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- Position:
- QB
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- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
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- Hometown:
- Ewa Beach, HI
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- High School:
- Thompson
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- Prev School:
- Alabama
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- Major:
- Sociology
- 2023 Maxwell Award Watch List
- 2023 Big Ten Preseason Honors List
- 2022 Second Team All-Big Ten
- 3x B1G Offensive Player of the Week (10/2/23, 9/12/22, 11/2/20)
- 2022 Academic All-Big Ten selection.
- Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week (9/12/22)
- Davey O’Brien Award Great 8 (9/12/22)
- 2022 Maxwell Award Watch List
- 2022 Davey O’Brien Award Watch List
- 2022 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watch List
- 2022 Pro Football Focus Preseason Second Team All-Big Ten
- 2022 Athlon Sports, Lindy’s Sports & Phil Steele Preseason Third Team All-Big Ten
- 2021 Maxwell Award Watch List
- 2021 Honorable Mention All-Big Ten
- 2021 & 2022 Pro Football Focus Third Team All-Big Ten
- 2021 & 2022 Polynesian College Football Player of the Year Finalist
- 2021 New Era Pinstripe Bowl MVP
- 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-District
- 2021 Phil Steele Fourth Team All-Big Ten
- 2021 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Top-25 Candidate
- 2020 Honorable Mention All-Big Ten
- Maxwell Award Player of the Week (11/3/20)
- Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week (11/2/20)
- Manning Award Star of the Week (11/2/20)
- Davey O’Brien Award Great 8 (11/2/20)
- 1ST
- Career Passing Yards (9343)
- Single Season Passing Yards (3,860 in 2021)
- Career Completions (776)
- Single Season Completions (328 in 2021)
- Career Completion Percentage (67.1%)
- Single Season Completion Percentage (69.2% in 2021)
- Career Passing Touchdowns (64)
- Single Season Touchdowns (26 in 2021, Tied with Scott Milanovich (1993))
- Career 300-Yard Passing Games (14)
- Single Season 300-Yard Passing Games (7 in 2021)
- Career Total Offense (9,599)
Tagovailoa Named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week
10 2 2023
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – After throwing for 352 yards and accounting for six touchdowns in Maryland’s 44-17 win over Indiana, senior quarterback Taulia Tagovailoahas been named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week, the conference announced on Monday.
Tagovailoa is the only player in Maryland history to have garnered Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week on three separate occasions, also earning the honor on Sept. 12, 2022 and Nov. 2, 2020.
In Maryland’s win over Indiana, which improved the Terps to 5-0 overall and 2-0 in the Big Ten, Tagovailoa completed 24-of-34 passes and threw a career-high five touchdown passes. The senior quarterback is the first Terp to throw five touchdowns in a game since Scott Milanovich in 1994.
Tagovailoa also became the first Maryland quarterback ever to eclipse the 9,000 career passing yards mark in the win over the Hoosiers. He currently ranks 13th all-time in Big Ten history with 9,343 career passing yards.
Tagovailoa, who also rushed for 15 yards and scored a touchdown on the ground against Indiana, now has 14 career 300-yard passing games.
Tagovailoa was also selected as this week’s Solomon Eye Physicians and Surgeons Terp of the Week.
The Terps travel to Columbus on Saturday to take on No. 4 Ohio State in a battle of unbeaten Big Ten East teams. The game will be broadcast on FOX as part of its Big Noon Kickoff. It can also be heard on the Maryland Sports Radio Network.
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Tagovailoa Named a Campbell Trophy Semifinalist
9 27 2023
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa has been named a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, college football’s premier scholar-athlete award, it was announced on Wednesday.
Celebrating its 34th year, the Campbell Trophy® recognizes an individual as the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation for his combined academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership.
In addition to excelling on the field, Tagovailoa owned a 3.61 GPA while earning a degree in Family Science from Maryland during the winter of 2022. The record-setting quarterback was also named Academic All-Big Ten in 2022 and selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team in 2021.
An Ewa Beach, Hawaii native, Tagovailoa owns 11 major Maryland single-season and career passing records, including career passing yards (8,991), completions (752) and passing touchdowns (59). Tagovailoa, who has led the Terrapins to back-to-back bowl victories and a 4-0 start to the 2023 season, was voted by his teammates as a team captain in both 2021 and 2022.
Nominated by their schools, which are limited to one nominee each, candidates for the Campbell Trophy must 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.
Launched in 1959, the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards Presented by Fidelity Investments celebrate their 65th year in 2022. The Campbell Trophy® was first awarded in 1990, adding to the program’s prestige. Past recipients include two Rhodes Scholars, a Rhodes Scholar finalist, two Heisman Trophy winners and seven first-round NFL draft picks. Named in honor of the late Bill Campbell, the trophy has been prominently displayed inside its official home at the New York Athletic Club since 2013, and the winner is honored each year during a special reception at the storied venue.
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