Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, November 23, 1993 TAG: 9311230052
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: GREENSBORO, N.C. LENGTH: Medium
A starting outside linebacker for Virginia the past two seasons, Burns currently is third on the team Burns in tackles with 90, including 66 unassisted tackles. He also has one interception, three tackles for losses and two passes broken up for the 7-4 Cavaliers.
The Tatum Award is given annually in memory of the late Jim Tatum to the top senior student-athlete among the league's football players. Tatum, a two-time ACC coach of the year, coached in the 1950s at Maryland and North Carolina and believed strongly in the concept of the student-athlete.
A native of Clinton, Md., Burns has compiled a 3.92 grade-point average in nuclear engineering. He received a research grant this past summer from the U.S. Department of Energy and Duke Power Co. to develop non-surgical cancer radiation therapy at UVa. He worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for two summers as an intern at the Planning Research Corporation in Washington, D.C., and participated in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Undergraduate Summer Institute on Contemporary Topics in Applied Science in 1992.
Burns was a first-team GTE Academic All-America selection and All-ACC Academic Football Team member in 1992 and has been named to the ACC Honor Roll in each of the past three years. He also received the 1993 Gray-Carrington Scholarship Award, given each year to a UVa student who excels in areas of personal integrity, achievement, leadership and humility.
In addition, Burns recently was one of 15 college players named 1993 National Scholar-Athletes by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. The 15 scholar-athletes qualify for an $18,000 graduate fellowship as part of the foundation's scholarship program.
by CNB