Football Senior Co-Captain Receives Academic Honor – Ohio State Buckeyes
12/7/1999 12:00:00 AM | Football
Dec. 7, 1999
Columbus, Ohio – Ohio State senior co-captain Ahmed Plummer, as good an example of the term great student-athlete as one will ever find, has today been named a first-team Academic All-American. GTE sponsors the Academic All-America football team and it is voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Plummer, who carries a 3.48 grade point average and is majoring in human resources, is the 24th Buckeye to earn first team All-America honors and the first since Greg Bellisari earned back-to-back awards in 1995 and 1996. Ohio State players have been honored a total of 30 times as first-team Academic All-Americans.
Plummer is currently in New York accepting an $18,000 National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholarship. The 1999 Preseason All-American recently capped a senior season by being named first-team All-Big Ten Conference. He also was named a third-team All-American by the Football News and he was a semifinalist for the prestigious Thorpe Award in 1999, given to the nation’s outstanding defensive back.
The Wyoming, Ohio native and Wyoming H.S. graduate finished the 1999 season leading all Buckeyes with five interceptions and nine pass break-ups, and he totaled 55 tackles. He completes his career with the sixth-highest interception total in school history – 14 – and he had 34 pass break-ups and 168 career tackles. He played in 47 games, started 37 and helped the Buckeyes to a record of 38-11, to two No. 2 national finishes and to wins in the 1997 Rose Bowl and 1999 Sugar Bowl.
Plummer, who married his college sweetheart – Tiffany Cherry – this summer, is a three-time GTE/CoSIDA District IV Academic All-American, a three-time Academic all-Big Ten Conference selection, and a four-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete.
OSU’s Academic All-Americans: 1999 Ahmed Plummer ’95-96 Greg Bellisari 1992 Greg Smith 1992 Len Hartman 1989 Joe Staysniak ’84-85 Mike Lanese 1984 Dave Crecelius ’82-83 John Frank 1982 Joe Smith 1980 Marcus Marek 1977 Jeff Logan 1976 Bill Lukens 1976 Pete Johnson ’74-75 Brian Baschnagel 1973 Randy Gradishar 1971 Rick Simon 1969 Bill Urbanik 1968 Mark Stier ’66-68 Dave Foley 1965 Bill Ridder 1961 Tom Perdue 1958 Bob White 1954 Dick Hilinski 1952 John Borton
