ORLANDO - College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced its district winner in the annual Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest this week and UCF Senior Associate AD for Strategic Communications John Heisler was among the honorees.
Heisler was the District 3 winner in the Event Coverage category for his his replay story of the UCF football team's game at Memphis during the 2020 season.
The start to his story is below.
Sometime some day when future UCF football fans are flipping through the Knights' record book, they'll marvel at some of the things that happened Saturday at the Liberty Bowl.
They'll be amazed that the Knights gained that gaudy total of 798 yards.
That's more yards than any NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision team managed in any single game in the entire 2019 season.
They'll envision how sophomore quarterback Dillon Gabriel proved virtually unstoppable when it came to throwing the ball against Memphis—his 601 passing yards setting a school and conference record. That number was surpassed only one time during that same entire 2019 campaign.
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Heisler, a CoSIDA Hall of Fame inductee in 2003, was one of 57 district winners and will now move on to be judged for National honors by a six-person committee.