{"id":5114,"date":"2015-09-14T17:47:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/rubio-long-snapping-blog\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2015-09-14T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T17:49:01","slug":"rubio-long-snapper-john-depalma-nominated-for-major-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/?p=5114","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Long Snapper John DePalma Nominated for Major Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time Rubio Long Snapper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvusports.com\/profile.cfm?sport=football&amp;id=102564\" target=\"_blank\">John DePalma of West Virginia<\/a>, has been nominated for the 2015 FAA National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete Award!<\/p>\n<p>According to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footballfoundation.org\/Programs\/ScholarAthletes\/NationalScholarAthleteAwardsPresentedFidelity.aspx\">website<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards, presented by Fidelity Investments, was established in 1959 as the first initiative in history to honor scholar-athletes with post-graduate scholarships for their combined athletic, academic and leadership abilities. In 2011, Fidelity Investments became the first official sponsor in the 54-year history of the prestigious program, which has awarded more than $10.7 million to 804 individuals since its inception. The program currently provides $313,000 each year in postgraduate scholarships to the nation\u2019s top scholar-athletes from all levels of collegiate play.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nominated by their schools, which are limited to one nominee each, candidates must be a senior or graduate student in their final year of eligibility, have a grade point average of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, have outstanding football ability as a first team player and have demonstrated strong leadership and citizenship.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations to John and his family! What an honor and I am very proud of him. Incredible snapper and better person if you ever get to meet him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DePalma-John.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5115 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DePalma-John.jpg\" alt=\"DePalma, John\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DePalma-John.jpg 480w, https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DePalma-John-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"5114\">529<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time Rubio Long Snapper, John DePalma of West Virginia, has been nominated for the 2015 FAA National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete Award! According to their website&#8230;. The NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards, presented by Fidelity Investments, was established in 1959 as the first initiative in history to honor scholar-athletes with post-graduate scholarships for their combined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35,28,2,38,5,3,48],"tags":[1390,1388,1389,1386,1387],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-college","category-deep-snapper","category-long-snapper","category-maturity","category-motivation","category-recruiting","category-relationships","tag-academics","tag-award","tag-ffa","tag-john-depalma","tag-west-virginia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}