LB Joe Burger (Official Thread)
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FORMER OHIO STATE LINEBACKER JOE BURGER, PLANNING TO ATTEND MEDICAL SCHOOL, LEARNS ABOUT LEADERSHIP AT CAMPBELL TROPHY SUMMIT
Joe Burger was named as a semifinalist for the Campbell Trophy, an award that honors college football’s best scholar-athlete, during his senior season at Ohio State.
While Burger didn’t ultimately win the award, he’s still reaping the rewards just for being nominated.
Burger, who played linebacker for the Buckeyes from 2012-16, attended the National Football Foundation’s Campbell Trophy Summit last week at Stanford University, where he and other previous Campbell Trophy nominees had the opportunity to interact and learn from entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley CEOs about leadership and how they have achieved success.
“It was a really cool experience,” said Burger, who also attended the inaugural summit in 2017, in an interview with Eleven Warriors after attending last week’s summit. “Just getting to hear the minds of some of the people that have really helped to shape Silicon Valley for the last 20 years, and kind of seeing what’s underneath the skin and what makes them tick, that was really unique. And not only the speakers, but also the other former players that were on the trip, really had a good experience just talking with them and kind of exchanging thoughts. Everyone’s got different experiences in terms of their football lives, but everyone’s also been successful academically and athletically, and they have different motivational tactics that their program used, and it was just a really, really cool week.”
The Campbell Trophy Summit was launched last year in honor of Bill Campbell – the award’s namesake – who played and coached at Columbia before becoming an influential figure in the business world, serving as the CEO of Intuit (who sponsors the summit) and as a board member of Apple and Google.
Mark Flynn, a former linebacker at Saint John’s (Minn.) University who is now a senior advisor at GSV Asset Management, organized the summit.
“Bill inspired a number of us, and all he ever asked was that we passed on, from one generation to the next, his values,” Flynn said in a National Football Foundation release. “We decided to gather really bright, talented people who have been part of this Campbell Trophy, saying let’s gather for three or four days to develop tomorrow’s leaders.”
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ol-learns-about-leadership-at-campbell-trophy
Joe Burger was named as a semifinalist for the Campbell Trophy, an award that honors college football’s best scholar-athlete, during his senior season at Ohio State.
While Burger didn’t ultimately win the award, he’s still reaping the rewards just for being nominated.
Burger, who played linebacker for the Buckeyes from 2012-16, attended the National Football Foundation’s Campbell Trophy Summit last week at Stanford University, where he and other previous Campbell Trophy nominees had the opportunity to interact and learn from entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley CEOs about leadership and how they have achieved success.
“It was a really cool experience,” said Burger, who also attended the inaugural summit in 2017, in an interview with Eleven Warriors after attending last week’s summit. “Just getting to hear the minds of some of the people that have really helped to shape Silicon Valley for the last 20 years, and kind of seeing what’s underneath the skin and what makes them tick, that was really unique. And not only the speakers, but also the other former players that were on the trip, really had a good experience just talking with them and kind of exchanging thoughts. Everyone’s got different experiences in terms of their football lives, but everyone’s also been successful academically and athletically, and they have different motivational tactics that their program used, and it was just a really, really cool week.”
The Campbell Trophy Summit was launched last year in honor of Bill Campbell – the award’s namesake – who played and coached at Columbia before becoming an influential figure in the business world, serving as the CEO of Intuit (who sponsors the summit) and as a board member of Apple and Google.
Mark Flynn, a former linebacker at Saint John’s (Minn.) University who is now a senior advisor at GSV Asset Management, organized the summit.
“Bill inspired a number of us, and all he ever asked was that we passed on, from one generation to the next, his values,” Flynn said in a National Football Foundation release. “We decided to gather really bright, talented people who have been part of this Campbell Trophy, saying let’s gather for three or four days to develop tomorrow’s leaders.”
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ol-learns-about-leadership-at-campbell-trophy
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