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Keenum, Sims and Cleveland Take Home Individual C-USA Honors

Houston Takes Home Third-Straight Freshman of the Year Award


 

  
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Dec. 9, 2009

Conference USA announced its 2009 Players of the Year, with junior quarterback Case Keenum receiving the Most Valuable Player Award. Running back Charles Sims was named Freshman of the Year and junior wide receiver James Cleveland garnered the Newcomer of the Year award.

Keenum is the reigning Football Bowl Subdivision leader in total offense, he leads the nation in total offense (429.3 ypg), combined with passing (419.2 ypg.) and has made 43 touchdown passes with just nine interceptions. Keenum has also thrown for more than 500 yards on five occasions, which has guided the Cougars to a national ranking in 2009.

The Abilene, Texas native, has already been named the winner of the Sammy Baugh Award and is a finalist for the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award, as well as the Manning Award and the Walter Camp Football Foundation National Player of the Year. A season ago Keenum was named the C-USA Offensive Player of the Year.

Cleveland, the winner of the Newcomer of the Year award, set a league single-game record with 19 receptions in the C-USA Championship Game. This record moved Cleveland to a season total of 101 receptions, making him one of only six Football Bowl Subdivision players to catch 100 passes this season.

The junior from Baytown, Texas, was also only the sixth player in UH history to reach the century mark and his receiving yards also rank him eighth-best all-time. Cleveland ranks second in the nation in receptions per game (11.7) and is tied for third in touchdown receptions with 14.

For the third-straight season the Freshman of the Year is a Cougar, as Charles Sims follows Bryce Beall and Case Keenum in receiving the award. It is also the second-straight season that the winner is a Houston running back. Sims leads the Cougars with 632 rushing yards and nine rushing touchdowns. Sims also added 64 catches for 702 yards and one touchdown. Sims, a Houston native, registered two 100-yard receiving games and one 100-yard rushing output this season.

 

 

The No. 25 Cougars travel to Fort Worth, Texas, on Dec. 31, to face Air Force in a rematch of last season's Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl.
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