LAFAYETTE – Head football coach Mark Hudspeth and the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns football staff honored members for outstanding achievement during the annual Senior Award Football Banquet that was held on Saturday at the UL Lafayette Student Union.

 

Senior Dominick Jones was the recipient of the Orlando Thomas Courage Award with Karmichael Dunbar being honored with the Hardy F. Edmistion, Jr., Sportsmanship Award. Eddie Gordon and Trey Granier were each presented with the Robert E. Trahan Special Achievement Award.

 

Elijah McGuire and Al Riles (Offense), Otha Peters (defense) and Stevie Artigue (special teams) each earned MVP awards with Nick Byrne earning the Gridiron Alumni Award.

 

Longtime team chaplain Eric Trueil was presented with the 12th Man Award.

LOUISIANA SPORTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION

2016 LSWA All Louisiana Team Newcomer of the Year – Joe Dillon

2016 LSWA All Louisiana Team 1st Team – Otha Peters, Steven Coutts

2016 LSWA All Louisiana Team 2nd Team – Elijah McGuire, Joe Dillon, Stevie Artigue

ALL-SUN BELT HONORS

2016 All-Newcomer Team – Kevin Dotson

2016 Honorable Mention – Keenan Barnes, Karmichael Dunbar, Eddie Gordon, Tre’maine Lightfoot

2016 2nd Team All Sun Belt Conference – Elijah McGuire, Joe Dillon

2016 1st Team All Sun Belt Conference – Al Riles, Otha Peters

Robert E Trahan Award – Offense – Eddie Gordon; Defense – Trey Granier Hardy F. Edmiston Sportsmanship Award – Karmichael Dunbar Orlando Thomas Courage Award – Dominick Jones Gridiron Alumni – Nick Byrne Academic Excellence Award – Trey Granier, Caden Cunningham 12th Man Award – Eric Treuil Off Season Training Award – Lineman: Karmichael Dunbar; Skill: Al Riles Cajun Team – (Offense) Ryheem Malone; (Defense) Kamar Greenhouse; (Special Teams) Leon Duncan Big Hit of the Year Award – Michael Jacquet

Ragin Cajun Newcomer Award

Co-Offense – Kevin Dotson, Robert Hunt

Co-Defense – Joe Dillon; Demar’ren Mitchell

Position awards

Defensive Line – Taboris Lee

Linebacker – Tre’maine Lightfoot

Defensive Back – Travis Crawford

Offensive Line – Grant Horst

Offensive Skill – Anthony Jennings, Keenan Barnes Specialist – Stephen Morella Special Teams Tackling – Reggie Miles

Most Valuable Player

Offense – Elijah McGuire, Al Riles

Defense – Otha Peters

Special Teams – Stevie Artigue

Permanent Team Captains Presentation

Offense – Elijah McGuire, Eddie Gordon

Defense – Otha Peters, Trey Granier

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