FARMINGTON, Utah (Dec. 12, 2023) – Montana State's Tommy Mellott was recognized for his hard work on the field, in the classroom and the community, as the Bobcat quarterback was named the 2023 FedEx Ground Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award recipient by Stats Perform on Tuesday.
Montana State's Tommy Mellott: 2023 Doris Robinson Award | The Analyst
Mellott becomes the first player from the Big Sky Conference to win the award in its nine-year history.
The Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award, named after the late school teacher and wife of legendary coach Grambling State coach Eddie Robinson, is presented to a student-athlete in FCS college football who excels on the playing field, in the classroom and across the community.
Since arriving at Montana State for the fall 2020 semester, Mellott has volunteered over 200 hours of community service, with emphasis on teen mental health.
He’s partnered with the foundation I Love This Life, a suicide awareness and prevention non-profit, and used his NIL – name, image and likeness deals on commercial and sports apparel – to put his face toward causes. Mellott has been a part of an awareness campaign for a crisis hotline that encourages others to seek support.
During the pandemic in 2020, Mellott helped organize a group of teammates to raise about $60,000 for the Shriners Children’s Hospital to replace revenue lost from the cancellation of Montana’s East-West Shrine Game, which Mellott was supposed to play in after his senior year.
Additionally, he has volunteered for over two years with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, participating with youth camps and speaking engagements in Butte and Montana State’s Bozeman community.
In the classroom, Mellott carries a 4.0 cumulative grade point average in financial engineering and is on pace to graduate next December.
On the field, Mellott is a two-time team captain and was a Stats Perform All-American and a Walter Payton Award finalist during MSU’s 2022 Big Sky Conference championship season. He's totaled over 5,700 yards of total offense with 53 total touchdowns in 33 career games as a Bobcat.
Mellott join's Montana's Eli Gillman as the second FCS Stats Perform award winner for 2023, after the Griz running back was
named the Jerry Rice Award recipient last week.
Mellott and Gillman will be honored at the Stats Perform FCS National Awards Banquet on Saturday, Jan. 6 in Frisco, Texas.
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