RICHMOND, Va. – Elon University football senior tight end Matt Foster has been named the 2019 CAA Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the league office Tuesday, Feb. 11. The announcement comes as part of the conference’s release of the CAA Football Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll, in which 43 Phoenix football players have named to the list.
Foster has achieved a 3.56 grade point average while majoring in Engineering with minors in Physics and Mathematics. Last month, he was honored on the prestigious FCS ADA Academic All-Star team. A three-time member of the Dean’s List at Elon and a 2017 CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree, he has made the Elon Athletic Director’s Honor Roll during each semester and has earned a spot on the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll every year.
Foster and Elon baseball student-athlete Michael Borucki recently received a provisional U.S. patent and are set to file for the permanent utility patent for a project they are developing to help people quit smoking and vaping. Last Spring, he made a pair of presentations at the Elon Undergraduate Research Forum on “On Demand Transdermal Drug Delivery” and “Building an Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System for Personalized Cancer Treatment”.
On the field, Foster was selected to the All-CAA first team in 2019 after making 19 receptions for 246 yards and three touchdowns. The yardage total was the most by an Elon tight end in the school’s Division I era. He played in 44 career games, including 37 starts, and was part of two teams that advanced to the NCAA FCS playoffs. Foster was a team captain this season and was a two-year member of the Elon Football Leadership Council. After the 2019 season, Foster participated in the College Gridiron Showcase, putting his talents on display for scouts at the next level.
Voted on by the league’s Athletic Directors, Foster’s honor marks the first time an Elon football player has been named the conference’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Elon’s 43 athletes named to the Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll ties the Phoenix for the third-most in the CAA in 2019. This year’s honorees include:
Will Alexander
Justin Allen
Joey Barbera
Mike Barone
Joey Baughman
Julian Boddie
Davis Cheek
Tristen Cox
Cooper Cromer
Jack Crossed
Jack Cutler
Skyler Davis
Jordan Dollerson
Jacob Feinstein
Marvion Field
Matt Foster
Luke Freudenthal
Zane Gilbert
Bryce Graves
Jalen Greene
Chazz Harley
Luke Hedrick
Isaiah Hill
Karl Hofmeister
Owen Johnson
Matt Kowalewski
Mark McGuire
David Morgan
Caleb Ogunmola
Marvin Pearson
Peyton Randolph
Liam Rowan
Sam R. Smith
Hunter Stephenson
Cole Taylor
Martel Waugh
Trey West
Ryan Whitehead
Davis Wilder
Jabril Williams
Tiras Williams
McKinley Witherspoon
Cam Wright