Pat Crummey
Football
2001-02
Senior offensive tackle Pat Crummey caps off an impressive season and a tremendous career at YSU by being selected as the 2002 Vindicator Male Athlete of the Year.
He becomes the 11th football player in 15 years to be named the Male Athlete of the Year and joins Mike Cummings (1988) as the only other offensive lineman to win the award.
Crummey, who late last month signed a free agent contract with the New York Giants of the National Football League, is the only player in school history to be selected as the team's offensive lineman of the year in consecutive seasons.
A native of Van Wert, Ohio, Crummey earned first team All-America honors by The Associated Press, the American Football Coaches Association, the Walter Camp Foundation, the Sports Network and the All American Football Foundation. He was tabbed an honorable-mention All-America selection by the Football Gazette.
In the past three years, Crummey started 37 of 38 games as an offensive tackle for the Penguins, an impressive feat after beginning his career at YSU as a defensive lineman. After his move to offense, the Penguins posted a 29-9 mark in his final three years.
A four-time letterwinner, he was the anchor of an impressive offensive line this past season. Earning the team's Jim Zdelar Big Mac Offensive Lineman of the Year Award and first team All Gateway Football Conference honors, he started all 11 games protecting quarterback Jeff Ryan's blindside. As a group, the Penguins tied the school record averaging 33.5 points per game offensively, averaged a school record 280.5 yards rushing per game and averaged a school record 407.1 yards per game. He earned team offensive lineman of the game honors against Lock Haven and Northern Iowa for the 8-3 Penguins. Following the season he was named a National Strength and Conditioning All American Athlete.
As a junior in 2000, Crummey started every game for the first time in his career, helping the Penguins to the playoffs and a 9-3 record. Crummey was named first team All Gateway Football Conference his junior year and for the first time won the Jim Zdelar Big Mac Offensive Lineman of the Year Award, which is presented to the team's top offensive lineman. Also, four times in 12 games, Crummey earned the team's offensive lineman of the game honor.
He moved over to the offensive side of the ball following his first season and it turned out to be a good decision. As a sophomore in 1999, Crummey helped the Penguins (12-3) advance to the NCAA Division I-AA title game against Southwest Missouri State.
He played on the defensive side of the ball as a defensive lineman as a true freshman. Crummy appeared in all 11 games and recorded 23 total tackles as Youngstown State finished the season 6-5.
Crummey, a graduate of Van Wert High School where he was an all-conference pick and team captain on the defensive side of the ball, owns a cumulative 2.93 grade-point average in Computer Information Systems at YSU. His parents are George and Janet Crummey.
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