Mulumba Named To Ted Hendricks Award Watch List
August 13, 2018 | Football
BOULDER — Senior DE Chris Mulumba has been named one of 36 players to the Ted Hendricks Award watch list, announced by the Ted Hendricks Foundation Monday. Â
The Ted Hendricks Award is presented to the top defensive end in college football. Â Hendricks was college football's first three-time All-American and the award celebrates on-field performance, exceptional winning attitude, leadership abilities, a contribution to the school and community, and academic preparedness. Â
Mulumba played in all 12 games in 2017, his first season on the squad after joining the Buffs from Diablo Valley College. Â He recorded 39 tackles and had four or more tackles in six games, including the last five of the season. Â
Mulumba was given the team's Ron Scott Award given to the most improved defensive lineman at the conclusion of spring practices and was named to Phil Steele's College Football preseason All-Pac-12 third team.Â
Still relatively new to football, this will be his fourth year of organized football, including one season at CU and one at Daiblo Valley College.  He enrolled at Central Florida in 2016 but did not attend school there, sitting out a year before joining the Buffs in 2017 for his junior season.  Born in Finland, his parents are natives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo but left a year before he was born to escape the country's civil war.Â
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The Ted Hendricks Award is presented to the top defensive end in college football. Â Hendricks was college football's first three-time All-American and the award celebrates on-field performance, exceptional winning attitude, leadership abilities, a contribution to the school and community, and academic preparedness. Â
Mulumba played in all 12 games in 2017, his first season on the squad after joining the Buffs from Diablo Valley College. Â He recorded 39 tackles and had four or more tackles in six games, including the last five of the season. Â
Mulumba was given the team's Ron Scott Award given to the most improved defensive lineman at the conclusion of spring practices and was named to Phil Steele's College Football preseason All-Pac-12 third team.Â
Still relatively new to football, this will be his fourth year of organized football, including one season at CU and one at Daiblo Valley College.  He enrolled at Central Florida in 2016 but did not attend school there, sitting out a year before joining the Buffs in 2017 for his junior season.  Born in Finland, his parents are natives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo but left a year before he was born to escape the country's civil war.Â
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