University of North Carolina Athletics
Bomar Named National Defensive Player Of The Week
November 17, 1999 | Football
Nov. 17, 1999
CHARLOTTE --- North Carolina safety David Bomar has been selected the Mike Fox/Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week by the Charlotte Touchdown Club for the week ending November 13.
omar, a junior from Durham, N.C., led the Tar Heels to a 10-6 victory over arch-rival NC State and was also named the Atlantic Coast Conference's Defensive Player of the Week. He was in on 19 tackles, eight solo, and helped to make the game-saving stop on the Wolfpack's last possession by tackling wide receiver Chris Coleman just shy of the goaline.
omar was making his third start in as many games. He has 47 tackles in those three games, an average of 15.7 hits per contest.
Finalists this week included: Tommy Polley, Florida State, Patrick Chukwurah, Wyoming, Dax Strohmeyer, Rutgers, Anthony Midget, Virginia Tech, Patrick Wiggins, Kentucky, Marcus Bell, Memphis, Jonathan Jackson, Oregon State, Ian Gold, Michigan, John Kraus, Ohio, and Brian Young, UTEP.
Joining Bomar as National Defensive Player of the Week's this year are Zeke Moreno of Southern California, Brian Urlacher of New Mexico, Kevin Curtis of Texas Tech, Adalius Thomas of Southern Miss, Frank Chamberlin of Boston College and Ashley Cooper of Mississippi State.
The Mike Fox/Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week award will be selected weekly by the Charlotte Touchdown Club up until the announcement of the 1999 Mike Fox/Bronko Nagurski Trophy winner on December 6 at an award's gala in Charlotte, N.C. The Trophy is awarded annually to the nation's top defensive player regardless of his position. Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden will be this year's keynote speaker.
The past winners of the Bronko Nagurski Trophy are Rob Waldrop (Arizona, 1993), Warren Sapp (Miami, Fla., 1994), Pat Fitzgerald (Northwestern, 1995 & 1996), Charles Woodson (Michigan, 1997), and Champ Bailey (Georgia, 1998).
