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Princeton University Athletics
Ozzie Nicholas and Jalen Travis
Nicholas and Travis Named To Senior Bowl Watch List
August 21, 2024 | Football
PRINCETON – Ozzie Nicholas (Duke) and Jalen Travis (Iowa State) have named to the Reese's Senior Bowl Watch List, the organization announced today.
Nicholas is coming off being named Stats Perform All-American Third Team and a PFF FCS All-American following the 2023 campaign. The Princeton graduate put together one of the most dominant defensive seasons by a Princeton player this century. He recorded 104 tackles, matching the most by any Tiger football player since Zak Keasey had 127 stops in 2004. While Nicholas was a dominant run stopper throughout the season, he also terrified quarterbacks in the pass game. He finished fourth in the league with 4.5 sacks; no other player in the Ivy League Top 25 in tackles could match that total.
Nicholas, the only unanimous first-team selection among any Ivy League defender made quite the statement in his final home game, recording a career-high 15 tackles and a sack in a double-overtime showdown against Yale.
Travis earned the male collegiate recipient of the 2024 Athletes For A Better World Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup in March after collecting his second All-Ivy selection. Travis forged that path by founding the nonprofit The Just Action Coalition, which aimed at promoting substantive youth engagement in policy-level advocacy on the local and state levels in Minnesota. Since then, he has interned in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and he was a 2022 recipient of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Fellowship in Government Service.
Nicholas is coming off being named Stats Perform All-American Third Team and a PFF FCS All-American following the 2023 campaign. The Princeton graduate put together one of the most dominant defensive seasons by a Princeton player this century. He recorded 104 tackles, matching the most by any Tiger football player since Zak Keasey had 127 stops in 2004. While Nicholas was a dominant run stopper throughout the season, he also terrified quarterbacks in the pass game. He finished fourth in the league with 4.5 sacks; no other player in the Ivy League Top 25 in tackles could match that total.
Nicholas, the only unanimous first-team selection among any Ivy League defender made quite the statement in his final home game, recording a career-high 15 tackles and a sack in a double-overtime showdown against Yale.
Travis earned the male collegiate recipient of the 2024 Athletes For A Better World Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup in March after collecting his second All-Ivy selection. Travis forged that path by founding the nonprofit The Just Action Coalition, which aimed at promoting substantive youth engagement in policy-level advocacy on the local and state levels in Minnesota. Since then, he has interned in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and he was a 2022 recipient of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Fellowship in Government Service.
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