Northeastern University Athletics | Football | Orio named to NFF Hampshire Honor Society

Orio named to NFF Hampshire Honor Society
April 27, 2009
Boston, Mass.

Former Northeastern quarterback Anthony Orio was recently named to the National Football Foundation's 2009 Hampshire Honor Society, which honors college football players for their outstanding achievement in the classroom.

The NFF Hampshire Honor Society capitalizes on the NFF’s current National Scholar-Athlete program, greatly expanding the number of scholar-athletes the NFF can recognize each year and further strengthening the organization’s leadership role in encouraging academic performance by the student-athletes who play football at the more than 700 college and universities with football programs nationwide. Jon F. Hanson, the chairman and founder of The Hampshire Companies, provided an endowment to launch the NFF Hampshire Honor Society in 2007. He made the contribution as part of his legacy to the organization after serving as NFF chairman from 1994-2006.

Qualifications for membership in the NFF Hampshire Honor Society include being a starter, or a significant substitute in one’s last year of eligibility at an accredited NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Championship Subdivision, Division II, Division III, or an NAIA college or university, achieving a 3.2 cumulative grade point average throughout entire course of undergraduate study and meeting all NCAA-mandated progress towards degree requirements.

Orio has a wealth of academic accolades on his resume. He is a four-time Academic All-Conference honoree and was named to the Football Championship Subdivision Athletic Directors Association All-Star team in 2007 and '08. He was a semifinalist for the 2008 Draddy Trophy, awarded to the nation's best student-athlete. Recently, he was named Northeastern's 2009 recipient of the Herbert Gallagher Award as Northeastern's top male senior scholar-athlete.

On the field, Orio finished his Northeastern career as a four-year starter, ranking third all-time at NU in passing yards (5,540), second in passing attempts and completions (493-for-871), fifth in touchdown passes (30) and first in completion percentage (56.6).

Orio graduated from Northeastern summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry in 2008 before pursuing a master's degree in Applied Nutrition with a specialization in Nutrition and Fitness at Northeastern. He will next attend the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey and pursue a career as an orthopedic surgeon.



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